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Top Review Highlights by Sentiment

Pros
  • "The people here are great to work with and the company cares about their employees.(in 102 reviews)
  • "Great culture and a fun place to work(in 88 reviews)
  • "Good work life balance (if you are looking for that)(in 44 reviews)
  • "Cisco benefits are great and the company mostly embraces a thoughtful strategy to how they treat employees.(in 44 reviews)
  • "Great leadership and sales process.(in 38 reviews)
Cons
  • "There was no long term strategy or actual management from our Manager, but rather a host short term knee jerk reactions that caused chaos and people being hired just for the sake of hitting a quota.(in 24 reviews)
  • "Managers bad talked reps behind backs and had false sense of superiority for no reason.(in 10 reviews)
  • "Not many but is fast paced and some times long hours which makes it exciting to go to work.(in 6 reviews)
  • "Better communication in regards to HR and employee benefits.(in 5 reviews)
  • "Career growth is 100% about who likes you and not anything to do with performance.(in 5 reviews)
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  1. 5.0
    Current Employee

    Great Overall Company to work for

    Apr 1, 2023 - Sales Engineering Manager 
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Part of Cisco and a great overall company to work for.

    Cons

    There have been a lot of changes with leadership in the last 18 months, most of which has been upper leadership. Not that it's necessarily a "con". There has been a lot of adapting

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  2. 4.0
    Current Employee

    Love It

    Apr 19, 2023 - FSR2 - Field Service Representative in Denver, CO
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    I love being able to have a small company kind of feel with the benefits that Cisco is able to provide. There is a great opportunity to network here and grow within the company, Cisco and other products that fall under Cisco

    Cons

    Sometime, as usual with big companies some processes take a little longer

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  4. 5.0
    Current Employee

    Great company

    May 1, 2023 - Enterprise Account Executive in Chicago, IL
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Great company with great people and opportunities.

    Cons

    None that I can think of at the moment

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  5. 5.0
    Current Employee, more than 5 years

    Great company to work for

    Mar 31, 2023 - Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco, CA
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Super relaxed environment with smart poeple

    Cons

    Not always super interesting work

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  6. 5.0
    Current Employee, more than 1 year

    Good

    Mar 30, 2023 - Account Executive in Reston, VA
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Great place to work. Product is getting better

    Cons

    None for me I like it

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  7. 3.0
    Former Employee, more than 1 year

    Mixed

    Apr 12, 2023 - Account Executive in New York, NY
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Great immediate team and sales motion

    Cons

    Senior leadership are clueless. The glory days are over.

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  8. 1.0
    Former Employee

    Corrupt org/team

    Apr 24, 2023 - Product Designer 
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Cisco part of structure, Cisco business partnerships, Cisco growth opportunities

    Cons

    Blatant violations of HR policies by AppD management left ignored by director, broken PDE process and balance

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  9. 3.0
    Former Employee, more than 3 years

    It was great

    Mar 7, 2023 - Field Sales Representative in New York, NY
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Culture Great SE's that you work with

    Cons

    Too many processes making it difficult to work and earn money effectively results in a lot of wasted time and energy.

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  10. 5.0
    Former Employee, more than 1 year

    An amazing culture and a great place to work.

    May 26, 2022 - Sales Operations Manager in Richardson, TX
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Growing and expanding - can't say enough good things about AppDynamics. It was acquired years before I got there by Cisco Systems and Cisco didn't meddle with the culture. You coworkers genuinely care and help you. APM (Software that monitors Software) is a huge growth market and creates a high revenue position and this is Cisco's engine to bridge the gap from being a hardware focused company into being a SaaS company (at least one of them). I left because I was in the wrong role - very transactional. I traded great work-life balance for a new role that was more demanding -but that is what I wanted to advance my career. I'd recommend AppD to anybody.

    Cons

    There are definitely silos, and spheres of influence but the culture makes it easy to bridge. It's more not knowing who or what is responsible for what during ramp up that is the issue. But again, it's a helpful culture so if you ask enough people you get the answer. Covid and working remote didn't help it may be different not the office is back up.

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  11. 5.0
    Former Employee, more than 3 years

    Great place for a Sales Career

    Jun 1, 2022 - Sr. Sales Engineer in Raleigh, NC
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Leadership is amazing and transparent from the top down at Cisco During COVID Chuck Robbins was one of the most empathetic and strategic leaders I've ever seen. Great training if you're new to sales, learn to use MEDDPIC, Mandel, etc. Diversity and inclusion groups of all types exist and are baked into both the AppDynamics and Cisco cultures

    Cons

    I have only great things to say, this is a great place for a sales career. The only reason I left, was to try the startup equity lifestyle. I'll probably find myself back at Cisco one day.

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AppDynamics has an overall rating of 4.0 out of 5, based on over 878 reviews left anonymously by employees. 72% of employees would recommend working at AppDynamics to a friend and 54% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

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

72% of AppDynamics employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated AppDynamics 4.1 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.1 for culture and values and 3.9 for career opportunities.

According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at AppDynamics to be senior leadership, benefits, career development and the cons to be work life balance, management.

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