Cisco Software Engineer reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(3,625 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 3,625 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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1.0
Mar 26, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

The perks are good but thats about it. There is a the all famed claim that "Cisco is a big company" but that is all that happens. From the day you join till end you hear the same dialogue again and again.Everything is an aquired project and no one has a clue about bringing it to ship shape quality. The cafeteria is even outsourced so to speak and it was the worst caterers ive ever seen in my life. The people raise complains all the time but its of no use. Occasionally theres a fire drill for which we need to run downstairs , thats one thing i learnt from there

Cons

sick management lack of vision no proper management or visionary views no guidance or mentoring in moulding new employees into anything

4.0
Feb 17, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Stable, In the Bay Area, Lots of People to interact with. It's relatively easy going culture with many chill employees.

Cons

Large, Bureaucratic, lots of H1-B's. Just like any other huge large tech corporation, this is what you'll find at Cisco. These are not huge issues but something that gets to you over time. Not only that, the compensation, while not bad takes a much longer time to develop into something more substantial. But in this economy, the pay is still very good. Cisco tends to have alot of meetings every week, which also turns to be a nuisance, since you have meetings constantly in the morning so you stay late to do the actual work.

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