Cisco Program Manager reviews

Management is horribly self-service and holds grudges. No internal opportunities. Almost 4 years without a raise, promo, or cost of living increase.

Compensation is lacking. Once you branch out of the lower levels such as support you start to run into road blocks. The company is VERY political internally. Management is great , above average at talk on ideas and planning but lacks the ability to create a complete strategy and execute on it. The company as of 2014 is facing its greatest challenge. Share holders want to see double digit returns on the core business, Routing and Switching. These are based on bare metal products. Bare metal is going away. Amazon and Google have already eroded some of this. Cisco does have a cloud strategy however its late unproven, and complex and full of issues. Cisco will fall behind in 2014 so do not expect a great deal of hiring. Bonus Compensation is based on performance and for FY13 this was sub par. Looking into FY14 this trend is expected to continue, companies own words. Same CEO has been had the helm since day 1. CEO and top tier base strategy on acquisitions. This is has stopped working. Simply buying a product or company does not make the grade anymore you have to be able to align and execute. Cisco is in a free-fall in this respect. From a Services perspective Cisco is missing the boat. The company has yet to figure out how to deliver on this. Then again so has its competitors.