Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

I began with a short online assessment and then moved straight into a roughly hour-long chat with the hiring manager. In that conversation, I wasn’t pushed into LeetCode-style problems; it was mostly about my background and how I’d worked with Python, along with general questions related to fit.

After that, there was still a typical multi-round structure in the background—HR plus additional interview steps—where the questions stayed easy and tied back to my resume and projects. Some parts were very practical and straightforward rather than puzzle-like, and even when I answered, it still felt