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Software Engineer Intern Interview Experience - India

October 25, 2025
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I was interviewed majorly on my previous internship experience: what my contribution to it was, and each of my projects in detail. (Make sure to know your projects in depth and be able to answer any question based on them). We then delved into a basic DSA question.

Questions

The interview steered in the direction of System Design. I had to design and develop an app that was meant to be a competitor to Instagram. I was given about 5 minutes to think it through and come up with a basic architecture.

After I explained my architecture, I was asked a follow-up question about delay handling in case of distributed systems, and I wasn't able to answer it correctly as I had not dealt with such systems in the past.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 8 interview experiences for the Cisco Software Engineer Intern role in India.

Success Rate

25%
Pass Rate

Cisco's interview process for their Software Engineer Intern roles in India is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive75%
Neutral13%
Negative13%

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

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