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Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was called in for an onsite interview, but it wasn’t for a typical software engineering track—it was for a technical marketing engineer role.

Even before the onsite, the uncertainty was what I fixated on: what kinds of questions I should expect, and what “activities” they meant by that.

I asked specifically about how the day would be structured, because I knew there would be more than just standard Q&A. I was a recent graduate from IT, so I was trying to get a handle on whether those activities were more hands-on exercises, group-style tasks, or something else entirely.

What made the whole thing feel stressful was that the onsite details weren’t clear to me, so I was essentially planning around unknowns—question style and the

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