Cisco·Software Engineer

Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview sequence had four rounds, and it mixed technical depth with repeated checks on how well I understood my own ML work.

The first round was an AI-assisted coding round plus technical questions. I was asked DSA topics, and it also pulled in DBMS and networking, along with some math like linear algebra and how it shows up in machine learning.

Next was a managerial round where the interviewer pushed deeply into one of my ML projects. Then I had another manager-plus-technical session with a senior Cisco employee with 16+ years of experience. That round leaned even further into networking concepts and also went deep into machine learning concepts and my project.

The final step was an HR round that was simpler,

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