Cisco Principal Architect salaries in India (Updated 2025)

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WLB is really good People are really nice to talk We will be valued and trusted in team

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Salary is less compared to market standards No transparency in salary We don’t even get to know what is the grade level of our colleagues unless you are involved with colleagues outside work like chai table or discussion tables

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Get good salary and RSU on joining, once joined upto 9% (if rated extraordinary) max hike is expected.

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1. No work at all, so no learning. 2. Company is not software company, so if you are into hardware, networking and security, that's good. But if you are into cloud, software, IaaS please avoid this company, it can screw up your overall technical expertise. Since they don't have any software related work. 3. Leadership will never settle down here as a result of which you will experience org changes thrice in a year. And you will be moved to different orgs with no technical benefit at all. My suggestion: Get the offer and never join it.

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Good culture and work-life balance. Everything is driven by managers at any level. Good company to work for but don't stay in the same team for a long time. keep changing the teams internally.

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... stayed more years, Salaries are very less when compared to college fresh grads. and there is no rule that higher grades get more compensation than lower grades.

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Work culture is best in cisco . Managers are very good and helpful . Really liked this company and feels best place to work.

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Cisco salary is decent. But cisco competitors pay better than cisco . But still best place to work when it comes to work life balance.

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A nice technical company with highly skilled work culture. Managers and peers are really smart and technical.

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Compensation is decent but growth is very slow, Though maybe highly skilled people are copworker could be the resons.