Cisco reviews

*Bell Curve Ranking of Top 10%, 25%, Middle, Bottom 10% often ends up ranking good people bad. BUT, they have made recent changes to minimize this *Due to the Bell of the Top 25%, you could be a great employee (26th best out of 100 for example) and have a hard time getting a promotion or salary increase *Matrixed organization often finds multiple people doing same job or similar things, Hard to completely own something on your own *Great senior leadership doesn't always cascade down to your VP, Director, or Manager. A substantial # of Mgmt doesn't follow the same culture and objectives as the senior team *Culture & Expectations can vary from organization to organization or from team to team. You really can't use one experience (even a positive one) to be indicative of another. *Competitive salaries but they will never pay you the top top dollar. *Not going to make it rich off any Stock Options in the short term *Could be more "fun" *No Free employee shuttle or sponsored shuttle from Fun San Francisco to Boring San Jose like most big tech companies in the Bay Area provide *Acquired companies often don't get the same perks/advantages as those already fully integrated

Some employees feel it is difficult to have a work life balance as the hours are long. There are more benefits and resources offered at larger offices.