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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
      Jun 2, 2009

      Review by a San Jose based SW Engineer

      Software engineer iii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good benefits package Relatively stable Broad range of technologies one can work on Usually, work load not too bad (but it hugely depends on which part of Cisco one's with)

      Cons

      In my experience, if you're not from the right startup acquisition or the right part of the world, you may as well forget about career growth within. (So people go out and come back 1-2 yrs later and get promoted way faster than any amount of hard work within would ever get them promoted.) Likewise, from what I've seen, promotions are mostly about politics not ability or hard work.

      3.0
      Apr 1, 2009

      Not bad, but a dead end job from day 1

      It architect
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Nice campus, building, gyms, etc

      Cons

      You're walking into a dead end job. After 10 years of great reviews, ive had 1 small raise. Cisco's plan is to offshore 85% of their workforce to india/china. If youre american, they are just hoping you will leave one day without having to lay you off. They will take all the free hours you are dumb enough to give them. 50+ hour weeks are pretty common

      2.0
      Mar 21, 2009

      Not a very innovative or interesting place to work...

      Cisco choice intern
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Good location (San Jose) - Potential to work on some neat high-end and high-reliability systems (though you might just work on some lame internal tool that shouldn't exist in the first place) - Good, cheap food at cafes - Free coffee and soda (though I heard this changed?)

      Cons

      - Company isn't very efficient. There seemed to be many groups working on the same exact thing. Or, there were groups working on some internal tool which really shouldn't exist since there was an existing solution (e.g., open source product). - Many employees aren't very nice. The small things - not saying hi, for example - add up. - Lots of needless bureaucracy. There are so many levels of managers and then so many different groups that change all the time. - Over reliance on contractors. - Not very diverse.. almost discriminatory in some ways: Everyone in CDO was so very similar. - Not very innovative

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