Cisco Sr. Software Engineer reviews

4.0

73% would recommend to a friend

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Chuck Robbins

74% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Cisco with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,000 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Cisco is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Feb 20, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Stable, good pay recent 2 years. work and life balance is OK.

Cons

Opportunities for growth are very limited in Cisco and have been underpaid for a long long time, even with E+ and X performance reviews. Too many people are doing nothing there just enjoying bureaucracy It looks like an indian company in US and is transferring everything to india ...

3.0
Jan 19, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fast aggressive workplace. Too much focus on operational issues and not much on learning and skill development.

Cons

Will be hard to learn new skills and change jobs. Anytime you change you are placed at the back of the promotion queue. So easy to get pigenholed. I changed mutliple roles and found that each time I was placed in the back of the queue. After few years, I was ridiculously lower grade, while they brought fresh people with unproven skills at much higher levels. Also my manager gave me a high speech about innovation and doing things differently to grow while people were coming in at a lot higher grade without doing any of these things. That is the biggest issue.

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