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Software Engineer Interview Experience - India

August 25, 2020
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Process

The interview process included:

  • Four rounds (a few friends had five)
  • One coding round with two coding questions and 30 MCQs (one hour total duration)
  • One technical round (a few candidates had two)
  • One managerial round
  • One HR round

Questions

Mostly about data structures, such as queues, stacks, and linked lists. (Asked to implement problems on them in real-time in a text editor.)

Lots and lots of short questions from operating systems.

Computer networks (lots of them covered whole).

Algorithms.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 378 interview experiences for the Cisco Software Engineer role in India.

Success Rate

45%
Pass Rate

Cisco's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in India is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive71%
Neutral24%
Negative5%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Cisco's Software Engineer interview process in India.

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