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      4.1

      82% would recommend to a friend

      (33,587 total reviews)
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      Chuck Robbins

      79% approve of CEO

      67% positive business outlook

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      4.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      4.2

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Senior management

      Cisco has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 33,587 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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      34K reviews
      4.0
      Jun 15, 2008

      Good place to work between companies of this size and maturity

      technical leader i
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Being a relatively big company and including a great number of different business units Cisco offers lots of opportunities to be exposes to different technologies. As an financially successful company Cisco offers stability and nice (but not great) compensation and benefits package. Between so big number of employees it is easy to find many of really smart ones though the average level is not that high.

      Cons

      Cisco is devoting lots of focus to protecting legacy products and, in some sense, it puts breaks to innovation drive and presents some inertia of thinking. Managers are generally competent technically but the level of politics vs. awards for taking rsk for the decision makes managers to go on the safe side.

      4.0
      Jun 14, 2008

      Great place to work but be ready to work hard!

      Services sales
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Ability to learn and grow. Compensation is very good with a combination of base salary and commission. There is a great opportunity to get stock options too. There is a tremendous amount of web based internal training in every technology. Also, Cisco has a saying "East your own dog food" meaning they provide you with the tools like cell phone, VPN access from home including a router, Cisco IP phone and video camera.

      Cons

      Crazy work schedule. Lots of pressure to perform, sell and drive revenue. Also there is a lot of pressure to do a lot of not core job work like business development, presentations to inernal teams, lots of reports and systems to keep updateded with forecasting, ect... There is a lack of coordination between hardware sales and services sales. Often, there is limited time to respond to custmer request albeit SOWs, RFP...

      4.0
      Jun 14, 2008

      Stable

      Software engineer iii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Stable employment. Cisco is trusted in networking world very well. No one gets fired for buying cisco. Good employer to be with during downturn. competitive pay and bonuses. 4 weeks of vacation. Located in beautiful san jose. Nice co-workers. Cisco respects employees well. Diversity is celebrated well. Senior leadership is strong.

      Cons

      Too large. You are in one in thousands. Not much innovation inside the company. Takes a long time to make any impact. Lot of layers of management. Typical disadvantages of working for a very large enterprise company. Not the best place to be at the bleeding edge of networking industry.

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