Cisco reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(33,651 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 33,651 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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34K reviews
1.0
Nov 7, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Allowed flexible work hours and environment. Great collaboration tools to allow workers to work remotely.

Cons

Cisco acquire companies due to lack of innovation and/or loosing market share. Cisco mismanages acquisitions and have a hard time integrating cultures from acquisitions. Layoff has became clock work. CEO announces the layoff at fiscal year-end every August. After the layoff, Cisco will acquire more companies to gain market share, then, layoff employees due to overlap technology and job function.

3.0
Jun 18, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Big company with decent benefits and opportunities to work from home. Good talent with lots of software experience.

Cons

Little training allowed during the job (not enough time or department money for classes). Manager turn over is very high (I've had more managers than years worked there). Hard to see direct connection to customer with products you are working on (too many layers of people in between). Yearly layoffs with little concern for talented people affected has created a bad morale situation.

2.0
Mar 27, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Tremendous opportunities to learn everything about networks, hardware & software.

Cons

Constant emphasized budgets & the corporate watchword of Frugality cheapens all aspects of the culture. They have acquired so many startups & other internet companies, some that don't even compete with them, in robber baron style that they've become the poster boys for job killers vs. job creators with a top-heavy elite upper management who reap a huge disproportionate amount of the profits in bloated bonuses. They are failing to integrate all their acquisitions into Cisaco, & most acquired companies evaporate with huge layoffs.

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