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Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

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PunePosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I moved into the process with an online assessment and an interview path that depended on the test results.

For me, the OA was the main gate: I solved some questions but my overall performance wasn’t high enough to continue into the interview rounds. Afterward, there wasn’t a detailed technical follow-up—just the sense that the feedback didn’t support moving forward.

The questions in the first stage reflected networking and C fundamentals, including subnetting logic, TCP/UDP concepts, bitwise operations, and debugging-style problems. Even though parts of it went okay, the outcome still came down to whether I could execute well enough under the constraints of the test.

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