Cisco Software Engineer reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(3,620 total reviews)
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Chuck Robbins

77% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Software Engineer || employees have rated Cisco with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 3,620 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Nov 13, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay, with some nice benefits, like a good remote access policy, free drinks, good cafeteria.

Cons

Cisco acquires all their companies. This creates "silos" where each company is still closely nit and not interacting with the rest of Cisco. This is commonplace, even among acquisitions that took play over a decade ago. It's hard, as an outsider to these groups, to get information out of them. Management needs to force their hands. Cooperation is not what it should be, even among people in the same department. Many employees have a view that if you can't do your work, it makes them look better.

4.0
Oct 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits and great flexibility. Exciting challenges.

Cons

Was not given much direction in terms of work. The atmosphere was very quiet and as a new grad, it was rather too lonely for me.

3.0
Oct 10, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The overall compensation is very nice. The work is interesting if you have not worked on network equipment before.

Cons

There is limited opportunity to work on latest technology unless you are located in San Jose. The company tend to pigeonhole you unless you actively make an effort to move around.

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