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Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was trying to figure out what the interview process looked like for a cleared software engineering role, and I kept coming back to the same uncertainty: what actually happens across the rounds.

I knew there would be a first phone interview with the hiring manager, but I didn’t have a clear sense of the kinds of questions they’d focus on or how the process typically flows end to end.

The more I asked around, the more I realized I was mainly trying to map the sequence before I even got to day-of preparation—how many rounds to expect for a new grad software engineer role, what the early screens looked like, and what I should be ready for after that first hiring-manager call. The questions I was looking for were practical and direct: how the process works, what sort of interview format

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