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Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

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Bangalore RuralPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview started with them pushing into my background and how I’d shown up in past experience, especially around my previous internship.

I was asked about what I contributed and I had to go through my projects in detail, to the point where it felt important that I could answer questions grounded directly in what I’d written and claimed.

After that, they shifted into a more basic DSA check—enough to test fundamentals rather than something that felt like a deep contest problem. The whole vibe was slightly mixed: the process itself went smoothly, but I remember noticing they seemed reluctant about the specific language I expected to use. The emphasis felt less on being “language-perfect” and more on whether I could code and

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