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81% would recommend to a friend

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Chuck Robbins

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68% positive business outlook

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4.0
May 14, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Large number of employee programs and tools

Cons

Pay increases are very conservative

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Thank you for sharing your experience as a Business Operations Manager at Cisco. We’re thrilled to hear you found the roles interesting and valued the global career opportunities, as well as the range of employee programs and tools we offer. We also appreciate your feedback regarding compensation. Striking the right balance is important, and input like yours helps inform ongoing conversations about how we support and reward our teams. Thank you again for your contributions over the years, and we wish you all the best in your next chapter! — The Cisco Team
1.0
May 13, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Cisco’s brand name boosts your resume. - Exposure to a wide range of IT and cybersecurity products. Free certifications & courses that are recognised worldwide. - You’ll learn a lot—mostly because you’re forced to wear multiple hats. - Lots of GREAT colleagues who try to support each other under pressure. They're some of the nicest workmates you'll ever end up working with.

Cons

- After the mass layoff, workloads doubled, but salaries stayed the same. Management’s answer: "budget constraints." Nothing changes - well, not in your favour anyways. But policy and workload changes? A lot. - You're expected to do more than what you were officially hired for - lead generation, qualification, technical guidance, account creation, and pseudo-account management—but you're still treated and paid like a basic lead qualifier. Commissions are even capped. Imagine closing a deal more than 600k in a single week, but your commission didn't even reflect 1% of that achievement. Instead, rewards are given in the form of cash vouchers or gift cards. - That being said; no career growth & no clear progression from management. Lots of GREAT people have left just because you're so busy focusing on the wrong things. You're punishing TOP achievers just because they don't follow your note-keeping style?? ridiculous. - Recognition is scarce. You keep the engine running, but it feels like you’re invisible unless something goes wrong. Each quarterly meeting is spent on celebrating wins that didn't even reflect back to the team members' contribution. - "Work-life balance" is for other teams & upper management. For the rest of us, it's 5 days in the office & you can only make calls at your own desk, not in any of the designated quiet room. Reason being: they want to SEE & HEAR you make the calls. As if we don't use recording tools. Micromanagement at its peak. - Leadership is disconnected from day-to-day struggles. Feedback feels like it goes into a black hole. Pointless. Weekly check ins? Useless.

2.0
May 10, 2025

You are family until you aren't

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Pros

The Kool-Aid was delicious for a long time, 12+ years. Good benefits, decent salary... everything else, depends on your silo or bubble. I worked in some that were good, some less so. Very few leaders, LOTS of managers and bosses.

Cons

Watching layoffs happen like a train schedule several times per year required cognitive dissonance. Then the "we are Cisco" spell breaks and you realize that most of the happy talk was window dressing.

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