Cisco Software Engineer reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(3,623 total reviews)
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Chuck Robbins

78% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Software Engineer || employees have rated Cisco with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 3,623 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer || professionals have a good working experience there. Cisco is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer || professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Nov 10, 2025

Engineer at cisco

Recommend
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Pros

Good culture and little micromanaging. You make the difference

Cons

Leadership is broken. There isn't micromanaging but the leadership pivots and drops projects quite fast. One time they've dropped tons of projects because they decided to buy third party software

4.0
Nov 9, 2025

good WLB

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1) Good work life balance 2) cutting edge tech to work on 3) good campus, food

Cons

1) salary and hike are low 2) periodic layoffs

2.0
Nov 9, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is good to join at an entry level when you have nothing, you will get access to whole range of development tools / environments. Very good technical mentors as well. beautiful campus. Have good opportunities to network and move internally.

Cons

In my first team which probably did not generate much revenue: my pay was horrendous, but WLB was good.. Switched to another team after a few years: Revenue generating team but my pay remained horrendous, the WLB is like working for big-tech (too many tasks where you have lot to work but no time to improve your learning curve).. and no recognition what's so ever.. extremely deluded people running the show in terms of people management.

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