Cisco Software Engineer New Grad interview questions
based on 13 ratings - Updated 5 Sept 2025
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in Aug 2025
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Applied online via their website and got invited to take an Online Assessment. Online assessment questions are mostly LC Easy/Medium difficulty problems. Passed all problems, however, sadly, was not selected to move forward in the hiring process. Would recommend plenty of programming practice, but do not sweat it too much.
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Question 1
Find the occurences of the largest number in an array.
Print a chessboard of #s and $s.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cisco (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2022
Interview
Three Online Assessment Questions:
1. Word Search(Leetcode Word Search 2 but only search in a straight line)
2. Rotate Image
3. Chocolate Question (Leetcode House Robber 1)
1. Word Search(Leetcode Word Search 2 but only search in a straight line)
2. Rotate Image
3. Chocolate Question (Leetcode House Robber 1)
I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco (Ottawa, ON) in Oct 2021
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coding challenge, tech screen with hiring manager (30 minutes) then technical interview (2 x 1 - 1.5 hours). I then ended up having a 3rd technical interview (usually dont have this) for another 1-1.5 hours and was ghosted.
dissapointed in that as i put alot of time into the interview process for them to not even email back.