Software Developer Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cisco with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 76.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer Engineer roles take an average of 10 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cisco overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cisco as a Software Developer Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
Background check: 25%
Skills test: 25%
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I first completed the initial screening before attending the formal final interview. After that stage, I waited for feedback while the company reviewed my performance. Once their evaluations were finished, they notified me of the decision and extended an offer if successful.
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previous experience and how it prepared me for this role
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Vancouver, BC) in Feb 2021
Interview
This opportunity was started as a networking reach out from manager (phone call). The next step included a take home technical coding test that was emailed back the next day. After a review, an in-house formal interview with multiple managers was scheduled. These interviews also included a technical review of the coding test by a couple of the team members.
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On a project that you worked on, use a whiteboard to draw out the components of that system and describe how each of the components interact with each other.
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Oct 2025
Interview
4 interviews for spring intern + full time employment. Technical, managerial, executive, etr. First we were asked to build an ai assisted web application which we have to demostrate and show some live changes after that cs fundamentals. In managerial general questions were asked. In executive few technical and managerial question. and etr was 15 min round.
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Explain abstraction, encapsulation. Explain where do we use oops concepts with example.