Cisco Software Engineer interview: OA programming barrier and design discussion

My process started with an online assessment and moved quickly into interview rounds, though I did not make it all the way through. The assessment combined many multiple-choice questions with programming tasks, and I could tell early that the programming section would decide things. When I was unsuccessful, the gap was clearly more about solving than simply understanding concepts. The interviews…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.