Cisco Software Developer reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(3,559 total reviews)
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Chuck Robbins

77% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Cisco with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 3,559 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Cisco is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Sep 5, 2025

Great work-life balance

Recommend
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Pros

Team members are super nice and have a very flexible work environment. Great work-life balance.

Cons

Compensation is not competitive compared to other big tech companies.

3.0
Sep 4, 2025

frequent layoffs

Recommend
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Pros

* good salary * flexible work hours

Cons

* proprietary technology. * frequent layoffs. * No work life balance

5.0
Sep 2, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Working on the latest tech. Focus more towards enablement of AI in networking.

Cons

The product you are working on not necessarily will go to production.

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