Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

I was asked questions around networking topics, and then it shifted into basic bit manipulation along with data-structure work.

I remember doing a linked list question that involved inverting the list so it effectively ran from back to front. Across the session, I also got prompts that looked like practical C-style operations—things like adding a node to the tail and performing bit operations such as setting a bit.

The difficulty sat at the average range, and it felt like they wanted correctness and solid understanding more than complicated algorithms. I didn’t receive an offer, but I