AppDynamics Reviews

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

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

Pros

Great company with great people and opportunities.

Cons

None that I can think of at the moment

Pros

Super relaxed environment with smart poeple

Cons

Not always super interesting work

Pros

Great place to work. Product is getting better

Cons

None for me I like it

Pros

Great immediate team and sales motion

Cons

Senior leadership are clueless. The glory days are over.

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

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.

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.

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.