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Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started after I got reached out by the recruiter, and I remember it moving in a pretty clear sequence.

I first did a phone screen that focused on my resume and what I’d done before, then I got an online assessment. After that, the technical rounds kicked off, and they were heavy on LeetCode-style questions.

Across those technical steps, the pattern was similar: resume details and project-driven discussion, plus coding where I had to work through problems while staying sharp on fundamentals. One setup included a split format where I had coding time alongside more behavioral or resume-focused discussion, and I also had an interview where I walked through how I approached parsing and filtering

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