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Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview process stretched out longer than I expected, and the structure ended up being pretty layered.

I started with telephonic screening and then moved into multiple face-to-face technical interviews done on the same day, followed by a face-to-face managerial interview. After that, there was a telephonic HR interview.

At another point in the timeline, I also experienced a version of the process that included an online assessment stage with networking and coding, then a PPT submission step that wasn’t described as eliminating. From there, I made it to technical round work that leaned mostly networking, then managerial behavioral questions, and finally HR.

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