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Cisco interview questions and practice

giveinterview has mock interviews built from 14 Cisco job posts since August 2026, 14 of them still open. Each practice interview runs the loop below: a 10-minute voice screen, then 2 rounds (coding, then behavioral). The topics that come up most are debugging, Python, C++, problem solving, analytical skills. 81 coding questions are known to come up in Cisco interviews (22 easy, 44 medium, 15 hard), 4 of them in the last six months. The most common topics are Array, String, Hash Table, Two Pointers.

Practice interviews built from public job posts and question lists. Each open post links to the original so you can apply on Cisco’s own site; Cisco does not run, see or review your practice.

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14Job posts to practise

14Posts still open

3Steps in a practice loop

100 minTypical total length

How the Cisco practice interview runs

The most common loop across the mock interviews built from Cisco job posts.

ScreenVoice screen10 min
Round 1Coding45 min
Round 2Behavioral45 min

What Cisco interviews cover

Skills and topics, with the number of Cisco job posts that list each one.

debugging6
Python6
C++4
problem solving4
analytical skills3
C/C++3
Java3
secure coding practices3
testing3
AI tools for coding assistance2
automation2
C2
networking fundamentals2
Networking technologies2
problem-solving2

Coding questions Cisco asks

From public company-tagged interview question lists. Most recent and most frequent first.

Easy 22Medium 44Hard 15

Array44
String25
Hash Table18
Two Pointers14
Math14
Dynamic Programming13
Matrix9
Sorting8
Breadth-First Search7
Recursion7
Binary Search6
Linked List6

Question	Difficulty	Asked recently
Two Sum	Easy	Yes
3Sum	Medium	Yes
Shortest Path in a Grid with Obstacles Elimination	Hard	Yes
Contiguous Array	Medium	Yes
House Robber	Medium	No
Longest Palindromic Substring	Medium	No
Collect Coins in a Tree	Hard	No
Word Search II	Hard	No
Lucky Numbers in a Matrix	Easy	No
Rotate Image	Medium	No
Spiral Matrix	Medium	No
Fizz Buzz	Easy	No
Maximum Subarray	Medium	No
Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters	Medium	No
Minimum Cost to Make Array Equal	Hard	No
Sum of k-Mirror Numbers	Hard	No
Number of Valid Words in a Sentence	Easy	No
LRU Cache	Medium	No
Find the Largest Area of Square Inside Two Rectangles	Medium	No
Check if Binary String Has at Most One Segment of Ones	Easy	No
Maximum Difference Between Increasing Elements	Easy	No
Diagonal Traverse	Medium	No
Edit Distance	Medium	No
Valid Parentheses	Easy	No
Minimum Time to Collect All Apples in a Tree	Medium	No

Cisco job posts you can practise for

Open a post to practise its interview and get the link to apply on Cisco’s site.

Role	Where	Steps	Job post
Software Engineer	On-site · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	3	Open	Practise Add to plan
Software Engineer Trainee_Technical Graduate Apprentice - India UHR	On-site · Hyderabad, Telangana, India	3	Open	Practise Add to plan
Software Engineer- Python	On-site · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	3	Open	Practise Add to plan
Software Engineer – Cisco IQ \| Bangalore	On-site · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	3	Open	Practise Add to plan
Software Engineer – Network/Embedded/Application Development (Summer Internship) - India EG Requisition	On-site · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	3	Open	Practise Add to plan
Software Engineer- SDK	On-site · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	3	Open	Practise Add to plan
Software Engineer	On-site · Hyderabad, Telangana, India	3	Open	Practise Add to plan

Questions about Cisco interviews

How many rounds are in a Cisco interview?

The mock interviews built from Cisco job posts usually run a 10-minute voice screen, then 2 rounds (coding, then behavioral), about 100 minutes in all.

What topics do Cisco interviews cover?

The ones that come up most are debugging, Python, C++, problem solving, analytical skills.

What coding questions does Cisco ask?

81 questions are tagged to Cisco in public interview lists: 22 easy, 44 medium and 15 hard. The most asked include Two Sum, 3Sum, Shortest Path in a Grid with Obstacles Elimination.

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