Cisco·Software Engineer

Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jun 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through an online assessment first, which set the tone: multiple timed questions that felt a bit like classic problem-solving drills.

I ended up working through three prompts, including finding the “luckiest number” in a matrix, a Fibonacci substring challenge, and a problem about the continuous sequence of integers with the largest sum.

The difficulty didn’t feel extreme, but it was enough to make me careful about edge cases and how I interpreted each question. I remember it being paced, and the whole OA felt like it was designed to quickly filter for fundamentals and efficiency rather than depth of discussion. I then waited afterward.

Eventually I didn’t make it further. It wasn’t the hardest experience technically,

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