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Cisco Interview Questions, Process, and Tips for Experienced

Updated 4 Mar 2025

Top Cisco Interview Questions and Answers for Experienced

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Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I was interviewed in Jan 2025.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Technical discussion
  • Q2. One-to-one round , technical discussion
Round 2 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. HR Round, salary

Manager - Business Intelligence Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. How to make pivot table range auto and how to adjust pivot to not show nil value.
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. About the nature of my work, they tried to understand if I am fit for the role.
  • Q2. Python question to code, students database

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well, what you have in your resume.

Senior Technical Lead Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. What is containerization (Docker)? what are steps to create container, till it gets deploy on server.
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Interview Questions & Answers

user image Srinivas N

posted on 8 Jan 2025

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic questions on cloud and networking
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
Not Selected
Round 1 - Coding Test 

2 coding questions in c/c++, 1 hr 30 mins - no. of deletions/additions needed to make 1 string equal to another. 2. print frequency of each number in array

Top Cisco Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. What is difference between mutex semaphore?
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Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. K Largest Elements Problem Statement You are given an integer k and an array of integers that contain numbers in random order. Write a program to find the k largest numbers from the given array. You need to save them in an array and return ... read more
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Cisco interview questions for popular designations

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 Network Engineer

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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
Selected Selected
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Python coding round for Automation role

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Another round of python coding for automation

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Technical concepts like networking , storage and testing concepts and methodology
Round 4 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Technical background, role in the current and upcoming org, Soft skills , inter personal skills
Round 5 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Company benefits, salary etc

Top Cisco Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Find Row With Maximum 1's in a Sorted 2D Matrix You are provided with a 2D matrix containing only the integers 0 or 1. The matrix has dimensions N x M, and each row is sorted in non-decreasing order. Your objective is to identify the 0-base... read more
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Software Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a narrow bridge, but it can only hold two people at a time. They have one torch and, because it's night, the torch has to be used when crossing the bridge. Person... read more
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Networking protocols like ospf bgp MPLS sdwan
  • Q2. Networking protocols like ospf bgp MPLS

Top Cisco Technical Consulting Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. What are specific terms in the technology (Authentication mechanism, how they work, how servers communicate)
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Technical Consulting Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. What are specific terms in the technology (Authentication mechanism, how they work, how servers communicate)
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Business Analyst Interview Questions & Answers

user image Jayanthi Ka

posted on 15 Apr 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
6-8 weeks
Result
Selected Selected
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Manager level Regarding your experience and overall work
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Stakeholder will ask about critical thinking and problem solving
Round 3 - Coding Test 

Case study done on your project

Business Analyst Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. You have 10 boxes of balls (each ball weighing exactly10 gm) with one box with defective balls (each one of the defective balls weigh 9 gm). You are given an electronic weighing machine and only one chance at it. How will you find out which... read more
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Standard Easy/Medium Leetcode was asked.

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. A basic system design question was asked.
Round 3 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions about my current company and project.

Top Cisco Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Find Row With Maximum 1's in a Sorted 2D Matrix You are provided with a 2D matrix containing only the integers 0 or 1. The matrix has dimensions N x M, and each row is sorted in non-decreasing order. Your objective is to identify the 0-base... read more
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Software Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a narrow bridge, but it can only hold two people at a time. They have one torch and, because it's night, the torch has to be used when crossing the bridge. Person... read more
View answer (196)
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Python, alogrithms, data science
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Python 45 mins, OOPS Concepts, SQL

Data Scientist Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. for a data with 1000 samples and 700 dimensions, how would you find a line that best fits the data, to be able to extrapolate? this is not a supervised ML problem, there's no target. and how would you do it, if you want to treat this as a s... read more
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Code DB Transactions like rollback

Information Security Analyst Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. What is vulnerability management? How do Vulnerability scanners work? What is OWASP top 10? What is SQL injection? How to mitigate SQLi attacks? What is XSS? How to mitigate XSS attacks? What is MITRE framework? What is Cyber-kill chain? Wh... read more
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Cisco Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Cisco interview for experienced candidates?
Cisco interview process for experienced candidates usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Cisco interview process for experienced candidates are Technical, Coding Test and One-on-one Round.
How to prepare for Cisco interview for experienced candidates?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Cisco. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Cisco expect are Python, cisco, Cisco, Linux Administration and Computer Networking.
What are the top questions asked in Cisco interview for experienced candidates?

Some of the top questions asked at the Cisco interview for experienced candidates -

  1. 1.Two routers are connected,Ospf is enabled but link is down, what are the spec...read more
  2. How did you build a sourcing strategy, what were the ste...read more
  3. Can you mention the biggest bid you conducted and what was the outco...read more
How long is the Cisco interview process?

The duration of Cisco interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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