Cisco reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(33,652 total reviews)
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Chuck Robbins

78% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Cisco has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 33,652 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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3.0
Sep 8, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good salary Great people Woking with a well-known and hghly respected organzation Working witrh an orgranzation that is global

Cons

Very political, it's not if you do a good job, it's how others think that you are doing. Getting ahead isn't really about doing the job but by doing pet projects that aren't related to you job but show that you think "outside of the box" and take initative.. Almost impossible to get a promotion, easiest way is to be in direct sales. As long as your team is making quota (on the direct sales side) they give them out like candy. But if you are in any tupe of support role they are very hard to come by. I was with the company 5+ years and never promoted even though got good ratings. If you have a team of ten or fifteen you better be ranked #1 or #2 in your group to get the promotion, which is hard to do b/c there's always a superstar.

3.0
Sep 7, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I enjoyed good benefits, and flexible working hours. I go in the office at 10 and go home at 6.

Cons

Company layoffs are frequent. If you are considering to work for Cisco, make sure that you are working on a good product.

2.0
Sep 4, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good company name on your resume, recruiters will try to snatch you up if you start looking for another job outside the company. Engineers know their stuff well Lots of perks (CAP awards for a project well done, good onsite cafeteria, gym, etc) Company has many business units covering many technology areas

Cons

sweat shop: expect 70+ hours of work regularly if you are an engineer. high pressure: not only do you have to put in long hour, it is a high pressure environment. Every one is pressuring everyone else to get the work done, leading to a very nasty environment and teamwork suffers a lot. People just do not have time to help others unless it is something that is "visible" by their management. Company frugality policy means you do not have the resources (equipment) to actually do the work expected of you. People spend a lot of wasted time fighting over equipment and making do with prototype that do not work.

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