Cisco reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(33,719 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 33,719 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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3.0
Oct 5, 2016

mediocre company

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Pros

ok working environments, sometimes slow pace.

Cons

lots of politics, constant cancelation of projects, lower pay, constant layoffs, bad for career with not so advanced technology used. sometimes unreasonable schedule.

2.0
Sep 26, 2016

Changing and not for the better

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Top notch compensation. Excellent work life balance. Excellent training programs particularly for new sales engineers and senior leaders.

Cons

Cisco is changing for the worse. While compensation is top notch, the (at least annual) layoffs and re-org/strategy changes do take a toll on personal psyche as well as your organization's ability to deliver. Senior leadership now seem to be "consultant MBA types" or mediocre engineering program managers rather than people who want to build products that customers want to buy. Accountability is completely lacking at middle levels of the organization

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Thank you for your review. We are striving to make improvements in the company and will take your feedback into consideration.
3.0
Sep 26, 2016

Great company if you can serve annual layoffs

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A good company to works for. Benefits are excellent and there is a lot of opportunity to move within the company.

Cons

Too much "Limited Restructuring" The company is going through a transformation and nobody is safe. Too much uncertainty. It has become a norm and everybody excepts the end of year layoffs which creates a very unhealthy work environment

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