Cisco reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(33,620 total reviews)
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Chuck Robbins

78% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Cisco has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 33,620 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Cisco employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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34K reviews
5.0
May 7, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Excellent work life balance. The culture is great. The managers are trained here every now and then with the culture rules. Seniors have nearly 25-30 years of experience in this same company. The inclination rate is very less. You can switch roles inside cisco through internal transfer and that works well.

Cons

This is not a software first company, which means the software engineers are not paid equally when compared with similar range of companies. Salary is not revised much. Bonus will be reduced by saying performance reasons. There are very less openings, due to which new talent won't prefer much here.

2.0
May 7, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good compensation, good ESPP program, nice learning center

Cons

No work- life balance, top management ego hard to manage, every quarter profit records with thousands of layoffs

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