Data Engineering at Cisco
Roles, Comp & Culture
An L6 staff data engineer at Cisco sits around $370K total comp from 102 verified salary datapoints. The primary Data Engineering tech consists of Snowflake, GCP and dbt, according to current job listings. Cisco pays data engineers above other Technology companies. Reviews put them at 4.1 on Glassdoor, among the highest of any company here. Employee sentiment at Cisco reads neutral and employee happiness is trending down over the past year. Layoff risk scores moderate for the next 30 days. 10 data engineering roles are open right now.
Cisco data engineer compensation
Each level's figure is the median of individual Cisco offers at that level, so it reflects a typical outcome rather than an average pulled up by a few large packages. Total comp counts base salary plus equity and bonus annualized over the vest, and the range shown is the middle half of offers, with the top and bottom quarters trimmed off.
Cisco employee sentiment, tracked weekly
Employee happiness for data engineers over the past year, so you can see which direction it is moving, not just where it sits today.
Recent Cisco events
Layoffs, leadership changes, and other major moves at the company, with dates.
- Exec departureMay 2026Leadership change
- Exec departureApr 2026Leadership change
- Exec departureDec 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureOct 2025Leadership change
- LayoffOct 2025~64 roles cut
- Exec departureJun 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureMay 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureFeb 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureFeb 2025Leadership change
Notable company events we track, with dates.
Cisco data engineering tech stack
The languages, storage, and processing tools Cisco data engineers actually work with, grouped by what they do. Tailor your system-design answers to this stack.
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FabricCisco data engineer job openings
A live read on what they are hiring: open roles, recent postings, where, and at what level.
Develop and manage Power Automate workflows for automated insight delivery, including integration with AI-generated summary pipelines (GCP ESPv2 / API Gateway).
Build Data Pipelines to ingest data into Snowflake and lead data access on snowflake
Design and build data pipelines in Snowflake and Python that serve as the structured data layer for LLM-based insight generation—including the Dynamic NPS Forecast AI Summary pipeline and similar AI-augmented workflows.
Design and deploy Generative AI applications leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI Agents, and intelligent automation frameworks.
Develop and manage Power Automate workflows for automated insight delivery, including integration with AI-generated summary pipelines and REST API-triggered distribution flows.
Practice for the Cisco loop
Round by round, the problems our model predicts for this company's interview. Rehearse the shapes their panels keep returning to.
Preparing for the Cisco loop
The round-by-round process, example questions, and prep plan are on the interview guide.
Compare Cisco with other data engineering employers
How the role, pay, and loop stack up against peer companies.
Prepare at Cisco interview difficulty
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Reading a solution is not the same as writing one
Every engineer who has frozen on a query they had read a dozen times knows the gap. The only preparation that closes it is producing the answer yourself, under time, before the interview does it for you
- 02
76% of hiring managers reject on the coding task, not the resume
From HackerRank's 2024 Developer Skills Report. Candidates who look strong on paper still fail the live screen if they haven't done timed, executable practice
- 03
5 problem shapes cover 80% of data engineer loops
Dedup, sessionization, top-N-per-group, slowly-changing dimensions, partition tricks. Writing the shapes by hand turns the unfamiliar into pattern recognition