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Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

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Lisbon, Lisbon DistrictPosted Feb 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a technical interview that came directly with two senior developers, and it caught me off guard because it was heavily technical right away.

They focused a lot on security questions first, and then they gave me two JavaScript exercises that felt like Codewars-style coding tasks.

What surprised me most was how quickly the interview went into hands-on technical work. I left thinking the process could’ve been clearer upfront about the format, since the first round being purely technical changed how I prepared mentally.

The questions were challenging but not chaotic; the difficulty landed in the average-to-difficult range based on how security-focused and coding-heavy it was. I didn’t get an offer, and the main reflection I had was

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