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      Software Engineer -2 Interview

      25 Dec 2019
      Anonymous employee
      Bengaluru

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      Software Developer 2 Interview

      28 Aug 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Dec 2019

      Interview

      Got call from recruiter regarding python automation opening. 1st round was hackerrank. 2nd round face to face having 2 technical and 1 managerial. Got call from HR after 3 days confirming my selection. Had salary discussion and got offer letter after 3 weeks.

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      Python oops concepts
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      Question 2

      Python regular expressions
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      Question 3

      Basic networking
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      Question 4

      Linux concepts
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      Question 5

      STLC questions
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      I applied through other source. I interviewed at Cisco

      Interview

      Just passed the OA but didn't get an interview. The OA was pretty easy to crack. It was on hackerRank, The time limit given was decent enough to complete as the questions were easy than expected.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I just completed the Online assessment so, there is nothing to share about the interview. The questions in the online assessment were purely based on DSA. They were easy even if you have little practice on coding.
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      Software Engineer 2 Interview

      30 Aug 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Ottawa, ON
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through other source. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Cisco (Ottawa, ON) in Feb 2025

      Interview

      One of the employee reached out on LI. The hiring manager was located in US. The team was distributed in all zone times. This position was for Ottawa location. Total rounds 5. They went too deep into OS and networking concepts. DSA questions on C programming language. 2 rounds were focused on programming and the remaining on OS and networking. During releasing the offer letter, hiring manager went ghosted. No replies.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Questions on strings, array, multi-dimensional arrays, SLL and trees.
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