# Cisco AI Engineer Interview Experience

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# Cisco AI Engineer Interview Experience

We publish interview experiences to help candidates prepare. This experience concerns a **Cisco AI Engineer** application for an **Entry Level / L3** role in the **United States**, with a **Hybrid** work arrangement.

## Outcome and timing

- **Result:** Got offer
- **Interview date:** 2 years ago
- **Timespan:** 1 month
- **Difficulty:** Difficult
- **Submitted:** 24 days ago

## Interview process

The candidate described the process as nice. Cisco cared about production concerns for agentic systems. Transformer fundamentals went well; production-related questions, including latency, were more challenging because this was the candidate’s first job.

The process included:

- Technical interview
- Final round

## Interview rounds

There were **2 questions across 2 rounds**.

### Technical interview

- **1 question**
- **Specific question:** Case Study of Agentic system, RAG

### Final round

- **1 question**
- The final round lasted **45 minutes** with a senior interviewer. It was mostly open-ended, included a short follow-up near the end, and involved substantial pushback on tradeoffs.
- **Question:** How would you improve a product you use every day for a new market?
- **Candidate’s approach:** Picked a segment first, sized it, compared three options, then chose one and its success metric.

## Interview tips

Practice out loud with a timer, keep a framework ready for every round, and ask the recruiter what each interviewer focuses on so you can tailor examples.

## Company culture

The interviewers were collaborative and kept redirecting discussion toward the user. The team appeared to value structured thinking over polish, and interviewers left time for questions at the end.

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## More Cisco interview experiences

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- **Software Engineer — Cisco · Mar 2026:** The contributor described no coding rounds, two system-design rounds, one behavioral round, and one cross-functional round, followed by an offer. **1 round, 2 questions.** [Read the full interview](https://www.aced.io/experiences/cisco-principal-software-engineer-interview-fe6a26?returnPath=%2Fexperiences)

[See all 3 Cisco interview experiences →](https://www.aced.io/experiences?company=cisco)

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