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Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

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HyderābādPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a recruiter call by phone, then I moved quickly into team-led technical interviews.

I ended up doing a 45-minute conversation with the team lead after the recruiter screen, and later I had a separate coding round with the same lead.

The technical content felt very Cisco/engineering-adjacent. One of the early segments involved MCQ plus a programming question that included core-subject fundamentals and even pseudo-code reasoning. Another variation that I went through earlier felt like it was built from many questions across coding, networking, and aptitude—pretty wide coverage, including networking and programming concepts rather than only LeetCode-style problems.

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