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      4.1

      81% would recommend to a friend

      (33,692 total reviews)
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      Chuck Robbins

      78% approve of CEO

      67% positive business outlook

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      Cisco has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 33,692 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      2.0
      Dec 1, 2009

      Cisco: The hoards of Ghengis Khan

      Senior manager business development
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      learn computer networking, meet smart people

      Cons

      employees of small companies they purchase are promoted over existing staff, travel, layoffs and cutbacks with 40 Billion in the bank ??? The Chinese companies, HP, Juniper, IBM, and companies headed by displaced former employees are poised to eat their lunch

      3.0
      Sep 26, 2009

      Good company being overtaken by mediocrity and compromise.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Decent benefits, good work flexibility, some smart folks

      Cons

      Huge pay gap between VPs and any other level. Company swung to far in cost cutting, gotten from the understandable to the ridiculous for a company with such large profit margins, and such a huge cash pile. The company is run by Frank Calderoni, not by John Chambers. Too many "priorities", so there are none.

      2.0
      Aug 24, 2009

      An unfair company

      Systems engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Flexible working hours: it does not matter when or how long you work as long as the job gets done - Work from home: you are given the flexibility of working from anywhere as long as what you are asked for is done properly - Good benefits

      Cons

      - HR is inexistent: they never answer employee inquiries, never answer phone, email or voice mail left to them by employees - HR avoids answering any questions with regards to salary increase, grades.... - Managers find it smart to pay as little as possible to employees and not promote them - Too tactical and focused on the commits of every week - You will close to never get a salary increase or promotion: there is always a freeze - Finance and HR do their best to cut benefits and salaries if possible - HR keeps reminding you that you are lucky to work for Cisco - Unfair in terms of equal employment opportunity: a lot of new positions are not announced and are arranged by managers to be taken by certain people before you ever hear about any of them

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