Does Cisco pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Cisco employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.0 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Cisco. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Cisco?

82% of Cisco employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Cisco 4.3 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.2 for culture and values and 3.9 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Cisco?

Software Engineer (3666) , Senior Software Engineer (1003) , Program Manager (621) , Project Manager (603) , Account Manager (593) , Network Consulting Engineer (493) , Systems Engineer (463) , Network Engineer (449) , Technical Consulting Engineer (417) , Business Analyst (412) , Technical Leader (353) , Product Manager (328) , Senior Manager (328) , Technical Lead (326) , Director (324)

What are the pros of working at Cisco according to real employee reviews?

"There are alot of great people and the culture is great!" ((in 2840 reviews)); "Worked for Cisco for over 10 years the best I can say Benefits are good." ((in 2734 reviews)); "Great people and teams who have a strong tradition of doing right by the customer and a passion for winning." ((in 2127 reviews)); "work culture is good and balanced" ((in 1242 reviews)); "Bonus pay is good and most often it is more than the 100% of the target bonus" ((in 1071 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Cisco according to real employee reviews?

"Frequent layoffs and yearly hikes were low" ((in 1926 reviews)); "Poor management (both middle and top)" ((in 889 reviews)); "Bad Managers were promoted." ((in 658 reviews)); "Too much politics; people don't work for the common goal but to justify their existence" ((in 198 reviews)); "Middle and upper management seems very oblivious." ((in 178 reviews))

What are employees saying about Cisco layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Cisco layoffs and their outlook for job security at Cisco in 2026.

Cisco reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(33,604 total reviews)

Chuck Robbins

78% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.3

Diversity & inclusion

4.3

Work/Life balance

4.2

Culture & values

4.0

Compensation and benefits

3.9

Career opportunities

3.6

Senior management

Cisco has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 33,604 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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34K reviews

3.0

Jun 15, 2008

Great place to work in the 90's!

Customer service engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Salary and benefits. In the past they empowered the employee to do great things, now not at all. The technology and availability of "state of the art" equipment is awesome. The labs and expertise of co-workers is also great.

Cons

It WAS the best employer to work for in the 90's but now is far too focused on profit and micro-management. Too many layers of managers managing time and metrics. Everything is far too focused on managing peoples efficiencies so most people are stifled and the atmosphere isn't like it was in the 90's. I'm not saying that they can go back, I'm just saying that the focus WAS on technology, coolness and $$. Now is is squarly just focused on maximizing profit. I left after 9 years of employment to another smaller "start up" type company.

3.0

Jun 15, 2008

Cisco Good Place to Work, wished for better career advancement

Customer support engineer ii

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good Job Security - Good place to build experience. Great first job, with lots of benefits. I work in support, and Cisco has a good system to ensure that I do not bring my work home. Also, for the support field, I am surprised how well Cisco Support Engineers are paid. Salary is definite plus. Additionally, pursing a Cisco Certification within Cisco is easy and inexpensive. There are many experts on hand to help the learning process.

Cons

Bureaucracy. Stifling young talent. Too narrow a scope of expertise, not enough interdisciplinary education or work. I wish sometimes Cisco Management will quick recognize who is a top performer and the motivated and talented folks are. Then promote them or encourage them to keep their development. Currently we only do performance reviews once every year and it seems the distribution of incentives is poor.

4.0

Jun 15, 2008

Good place to work between companies of this size and maturity

technical leader i

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Being a relatively big company and including a great number of different business units Cisco offers lots of opportunities to be exposes to different technologies. As an financially successful company Cisco offers stability and nice (but not great) compensation and benefits package. Between so big number of employees it is easy to find many of really smart ones though the average level is not that high.

Cons

Cisco is devoting lots of focus to protecting legacy products and, in some sense, it puts breaks to innovation drive and presents some inertia of thinking. Managers are generally competent technically but the level of politics vs. awards for taking rsk for the decision makes managers to go on the safe side.

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