Cisco·Software Engineer

Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

San Francisco, CAPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My timeline kicked off with an OA invite, and I ended up moving through a well-organized sequence where the recruiter and interviewers seemed genuinely invested in making the process work.

The first contact after the OA was a phone screen, and overall it felt coordinated rather than chaotic.

In a separate run of interviews I also went through a similar structure: an initial HR conversation, then a hiring manager call, followed by two technical rounds and finally a culture/personality-oriented round. What stood out to me most was the responsiveness—feedback came quickly after each round, and the final decision arrived soon after the last interview.

The difficulty stayed in a reasonable range, and the interviewers were supportive and professional. I didn’t experience that

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