I recently had a software developer interview with Cisco. We discussed software design patterns, system scalability, and maintainable architecture principles. They were also interested in flexible working across different time zones and global collaboration. I explained that I’ve been working as a contractor, which has allowed me to adapt easily to distributed teams and asynchronous workflows.

There were two interviews in total, the first was conducted by two team members and had technical questions and the second was with the manager and was about system design.