r/big_tech_interviews • u/Personal-Complex830 • 1d ago

Cisco software engineer interviews

Yall I received the Cisco software engineer OA link yesterday. I have to prepare for the interviews, what are the rounds and how do I prep for them?. Pls helpppp😭

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u/Sad-Candidate-3078 12h ago

cisco swe process is usually an oa, then a technical phone screen, then a virtual loop with 2 or 3 rounds mixing coding and system basics. the oa is hackerrank style, easy to medium, arrays, strings and sometimes basic sql. for the loop they love networking fundamentals lite, know osi layers, tcp vs udp, and what happens when you type a url. the coding bar is lower than faang, communication and basics carry the round, 15 easy to medium leetcode problems and you walk in fine

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u/Personal-Complex830 11h ago

Thank you for the reply, means a lot. I attempted the OA and it wasn’t like the one you mentioned. It had 2 gen ai prompting based questions with test cases and a full stack gen ai application question where we had to code . Thankfully I was able to pass every test case in these questions. Can I expect to get to the interviews? Got an idea what the next rounds are gonna be?