Cisco·Software Engineer

Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Tel Aviv-YafoPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After applying, a recruiter reached out and asked a few role-specific questions before scheduling an interview with the recruiting manager.

On the day of the interviews, the first conversation started like a typical introduction and “tell me about yourself,” but the main question was centered on my experience building a system end to end.

The second interview was a system design round. It was role-specific, and while it didn’t feel like a generic example, it still had a few tricky parts that pushed me to think through the design rather than relying on a template.

I didn’t end up receiving an offer, but the experience felt balanced between execution and higher-level thinking, and the end-to-end systems question became the anchor

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