Cisco·Software Engineer

Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Ottawa, ONPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

One recruiter reached out on LinkedIn, and the hiring manager was based in the US while the team was distributed across different time zones.

The role was for the Ottawa location, and the process dragged into five total rounds.

What stood out was how deep the technical questions went—especially around OS and networking concepts. There were DSA questions too, including one tied to C programming language. The interview loop split into two rounds focused on programming and the remaining rounds focused on OS and networking, which made the whole experience feel very specialized. It went poorly at the end even though things were progressing: during the offer-letter stage, the hiring manager went unresponsive and I got no replies, even

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