Technical but relaxed, troubleshooting is super important so if you’re not technical, maybe apply how you troubleshoot other things in a different work setting for example. And brush up on CCNA topics of course, but mostly be ambitious
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What could happen with a switching loop and how do we negate the issue?
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cisco in Jun 2026
Interview
Mainly asked about the networking and OSI models and if any project related to the networking as well as how you communicate and how is ur confidence level, the tip is to speak confidently and try to answer all the questions
total 3 technical rounds.
more over on packaet flow and aaa based questions
what happens when you type google.com
RADIUS VS TACACS
Guest auth flow
switching questions
vlan
intervlan routing
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
EAP-TLS packet flow with details explaination step by step
Good and it included a lot of challenging puzzles. I was directly recruited from my college, so there were 3 rounds 1 technical, 1 managerial and HR round. It was a good experience overall
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