Cisco·Software Engineer

Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Bangalore RuralPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My recruitment started with an online assessment, and once I passed it, the next step was a single in-person interview.

That interview focused heavily on networking concepts and also touched low-level system design, so it didn’t feel like the usual “DSA-only” conversation.

During the technical part, I remember getting asked to solve a set of data structure and algorithm problems and then having a deeper discussion rooted in my projects. They went deep into at least one project I selected, using it as a way to probe my reasoning rather than just checking whether I could name terms.

Overall it was a fairly difficult experience for me, and I didn’t get an offer. The hardest part was balancing the

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