Cisco·Software Engineer

Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process was five steps and felt structured around both technical and communication formats.

It started with an online assessment focused on networking and coding. After that, I had to submit a PPT based on an idea I chose, and that presentation submission wasn’t described as an elimination step.

Then I moved into technical interview rounds: the first technical round leaned mostly on networking, which set the tone for what they were trying to evaluate. After that came a managerial round built on behavioral questions, followed by an HR round.

Overall it landed as an average-difficulty process, but the sequence made it feel longer and more layered than a simple coding interview. I

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