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Software Engineer Interview Experience - India

December 15, 2021

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Process

I had 4 rounds of interviews, after the initial discussion with HR and a short MCQ involving technical questions.

The first two rounds were technical rounds.

The first round focused on my current project and my technical knowledge within that project. The second round involved more generic technical questions.

This was followed by a manager discussion and an HR discussion.

Questions

I was interviewed for the front-end developer position. The questions mostly revolved around the technologies they mentioned in the job description, specifically Angular and RxJS.

Topics included different operators in RxJS and advanced concepts in Angular.

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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.

Cisco Work Experiences

Great Team, Late Nights

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Very supportive environment and team.

Cons: Long hours of work at night

Great Team, Late Nights

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Very supportive environment and team.

Cons: Long hours of work at night

Good people, too much bureaucracy

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Kraków, Poland

Pros: I met here experts in many fields and people eager to share knowledge.

Cons: To do many things, you need to struggle with official processes. If you want to get advice from the HR department about a situation specific to your country, you can't connect to a local specialist. Instead, they assign you a person from another country who knows nothing about your specific situation. Very uncomfortable.

Good people, too much bureaucracy

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Kraków, Poland

Pros: I met here experts in many fields and people eager to share knowledge.

Cons: To do many things, you need to struggle with official processes. If you want to get advice from the HR department about a situation specific to your country, you can't connect to a local specialist. Instead, they assign you a person from another country who knows nothing about your specific situation. Very uncomfortable.

Good to settle down

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: Good campus and streamlined process for everything.

Cons: You get lost in the Cisco world and lose touch with technology. Salaries are below market average.

Good to settle down

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: Good campus and streamlined process for everything.

Cons: You get lost in the Cisco world and lose touch with technology. Salaries are below market average.

Great Team, Late Nights

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Very supportive environment and team.

Cons: Long hours of work at night

5.0
Great Team, Late Nights
Software Engineer • Current Employee
June 18, 2025
Pros: Very supportive environment and team.
Cons: Long hours of work at night

Good people, too much bureaucracy

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Kraków, Poland

Pros: I met here experts in many fields and people eager to share knowledge.

Cons: To do many things, you need to struggle with official processes. If you want to get advice from the HR department about a situation specific to your country, you can't connect to a local specialist. Instead, they assign you a person from another country who knows nothing about your specific situation. Very uncomfortable.

4.0
Good people, too much bureaucracy
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Kraków, Poland
May 26, 2023
Pros: I met here experts in many fields and people eager to share knowledge.
Cons: To do many things, you need to struggle with official processes. If you want to get advice from the HR department about a situation specific to your country, you can't connect to a local specialist. Instead, they assign you a person from another country who knows nothing about your specific situation. Very uncomfortable.

Good to settle down

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: Good campus and streamlined process for everything.

Cons: You get lost in the Cisco world and lose touch with technology. Salaries are below market average.

4.0
Good to settle down
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
May 20, 2019
Pros: Good campus and streamlined process for everything.
Cons: You get lost in the Cisco world and lose touch with technology. Salaries are below market average.

Cisco Interview Questions

Collect Coins in a Tree

Imagine a tree where some nodes have coins. You want to collect all the coins, but you can only traverse the tree. Find the minimum number of edges you need to travel to collect all the coins.

Minimum Time to Collect All Apples in a Tree

Imagine a tree where some nodes have apples. Find the minimum time needed to collect all the apples and return to the root, considering the time to travel each edge.

TreesDepth-First SearchRecursion

Rotate Image

You are given a square matrix representing an image. Rotate the image by 90 degrees clockwise in-place.

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