Cisco reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(33,652 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 33,652 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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1.0
Dec 6, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Name recognition on resume. If you can get approved for work at home from a manager it's a nice perk.

Cons

THEY CLOSE FOR TWO WEEKS AROUND CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS - employees must use vacation time to get paid and contractors don't get paid at all - Apply for unemployment in CA and it can get approved. They plan to cut $1,000,000,000 in 2011/2012 and 10,000 people. They bought and dumped companies. John Chambers should GO - NOW!!! He's driven the company down the tubes too long. Look at their stock price from 2010 to now. What a loss for every employee. Moral is really hurt. They allow incompetant managers to remain. A lot of good talent has already jumped ship and more to follow. Overworked with a very poor onboarding process. Departments don't have common process and a lot of confussion between teams. WebEx is like another company altogether although they are part of Cisco. Products are falling behind. Manufactureing is week with a lot of product delays.

1.0
Jun 19, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1st job after college. been there for last 10 years. looking for a change of career as cisco stock sucks !!

Cons

stock performance is bad. company has too many politics to get serious work done. company is too management heavy and too few engineers to do the actual job

3.0
Jan 14, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good brand name can while away time doing nothing as lot of people do if inquisitive enough can learn a lot about markets, products , technical architecture in general

Cons

Too much politics. Appreciation by mouth isnt good enough and thats what you get from higher up . Need to play politics and keep whining or threatening about leaving, you might get something then. Being new to work full time didnt play my cards well and kept to myself. Lot of guys know nothing but talk and eventually they take the pie and you are left with crumbs. As a new hire fresh off the school and under choice it is fun. Fast forward a year, you see you havent done anything to be proud of. It strikes to you , you knew much more when you were in school than now. You were much more marketable before than now!! Advice: learn as much as you can , once you see its slowing down , get out before you become totally unemployable!!

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