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      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

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      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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      34K reviews
      4.0
      Jun 24, 2010

      Stability, but difficult to get salary increase

      Finance manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Cisco offers lots of training and is relatively stable and growing company to work for. If you have great people and networking skills you will advance faster than average.

      Cons

      Very difficult to get a raise or promotion. If you get paid the market rate for your position after your 1st or 2nd year it will be difficult to get a raise without a promotion. Cisco only offer salary increases if you are consider below market rate on Cisco's scale.

      2.0
      Mar 11, 2010

      Getting progressively worse each year

      Software engineer iii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good balance between family life and work Lots of smart folks, but management inertia makes them loose their enthusiastic and innovative traits. If you do good work that gives visibility to your management, you do get recognition, but dont expect raise or promotions Good place to be if you want to cruise by with no promotions and raises.

      Cons

      Growth is very slow, unless you are under a manager you understands your potential and can utilize your career goals to BU goals and leverage to grow himself.

      2.0
      Sep 4, 2009

      Sweat shop

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good company name on your resume, recruiters will try to snatch you up if you start looking for another job outside the company. Engineers know their stuff well Lots of perks (CAP awards for a project well done, good onsite cafeteria, gym, etc) Company has many business units covering many technology areas

      Cons

      sweat shop: expect 70+ hours of work regularly if you are an engineer. high pressure: not only do you have to put in long hour, it is a high pressure environment. Every one is pressuring everyone else to get the work done, leading to a very nasty environment and teamwork suffers a lot. People just do not have time to help others unless it is something that is "visible" by their management. Company frugality policy means you do not have the resources (equipment) to actually do the work expected of you. People spend a lot of wasted time fighting over equipment and making do with prototype that do not work.

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