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      Software Engineer-1 Interview

      Jun 9, 2019
      Anonymous employee
      Bengaluru
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru)

      Interview

      Applied on the company website, got a call from cisco after 4 days. Interviews were scheduled. First round was a tech round - Core Java concepts, finding output of code snippets, js, CSS, Jquery, Java threads concepts, Java synchronization. 2nd round was another tech round - Deep understanding of data structures, Login form program.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      How to find the middle element of a singly linked list.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Write a program to input a character into a text box and print the character everytime submit button is clicked
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Find how many pairs of matching socks are present in the array
      1 Answer

      Question 4

      How to recursively call a method to update election results in a web page
      1 Answer

      Other Software Engineer-1 Interview Reviews for Cisco

      Software Engineer 1 Interview

      Jul 20, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Ottawa, ON
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Cisco (Ottawa, ON)

      Interview

      Coding challange 3 questions, followed by initial screen and three round of interview. I was eliminated after second round. Easy to medium coding challenge. 1st round was focused on your background but also asked about DSA, OS etc. 2nd was more focused on technical but asked about my background

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      In the second round, they asked about network, DSA, debugging, expertise, c concepts such as memory leaks etc
      Answer question

      Software Engineer 1 Interview

      Feb 27, 2023
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2023

      Interview

      It was an SHL technical assessment. I am still awaiting a response 1 month later. The technical assessment was very fair, gave applicants multiple languages to choose from, and had a great UI.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Problems were: - FizzBuzz - Longest Palindrome - number of ints less than n whose digits sum to 14.
      Answer question

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