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      Software Engineer II Interview

      15 Apr 2019
      Anonymous employee
      Bengaluru
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Aug 2015

      Interview

      3 rounds of Technical round followed by a manager round. Interview involved good conceptual questions. We need to choose a language to write a code. They will check the code which is near to compilation and don't miss initialization and null checks. Please creful with pointers.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1) Write code on data structures like link list and tree. 2) Find a loop in the link list. 3) reverse a string. 4) Operating system concepts 5) Threads and process 6) Virtual memory concept 7) File system 8) IPC and socket programming 9) Basic networking questions
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      Software Engineer II Interview

      19 Aug 2025
      Anonymous employee
      Milpitas, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Milpitas, CA) in Aug 2025

      Interview

      1. Call with recruiter 2. Technical interview 1 (coding) 3. Onsite interview 3a. Technical interview 2 (logic, dsa) 3b. Technical interview 3 (look at code, talk about your projects) 3c. Hiring manager interview (look through past Github projects)

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      In the interview with the hiring manager, they pulled up my Github and started asking me questions about a project I had previously done.
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      Software Engineer II Interview

      26 Apr 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Jose, CA
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA)

      Interview

      Questions on DSA and basic Operating Systems and networking questions. Also, there was a behavioral round that covered all from my resume and gave to situations to respond accordingly. I got the interview call through GHC and it had only 2 interviews

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Questions on DSA and basic Operating Systems and networking questions.
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      Software Engineer II Interview

      4 Nov 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Cisco

      Interview

      I successfully completed the online assessment, demonstrating proficiency in all questions and test cases. However, there has been no communication or update on the interview process from the company since.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Sliding window and HashMap-based questions.
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