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Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with an online assessment and then moved into interview rounds quickly, but I didn’t make it all the way through.

The assessment leaned heavily on multiple-choice plus programming parts—there were a lot of MCQs alongside coding questions—and I could feel early on that the programming section was the deciding factor. When I wasn’t successful, it was already clear that the gap was more about solving than just understanding concepts.

For the interviews I did get to, the style was much more conversational than I expected. I spent a lot of time walking through my resume and projects, and the questions kept pulling on the design decisions behind what I’d built. I had a coding question that felt like a

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