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4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(33,676 total reviews)
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78% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Cisco has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 33,676 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Apr 29, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Learned a lot about how multinationals work - I was challenged to do things I never thought I could do (and I was successful!)

Cons

- Work never ended. Because I was in a position where I had to work with people in locations worldwide, I had to be available almost 24/7. - Extremely competitive. Lots of politics. - It was so big that I had no idea of what was going on in many parts of the company. - Frugality can be a good thing, but they take it too far.

2.0
Apr 29, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Get a chance to work with the smart and stupid people at the same time (find this in the meeting most of the time) -Flexible hours (you can work from anywhere, tolilets or home as long as you have a phone or wifi) -Cross function working experience (from engineer to VP together) -Super quick promotion/raise you could get if your boss is your buddy or friend -Good to have a Cisco batch to show (like driving a volkswagen that is made in mexico, go figure the quality urself) -You can choose macbook Pro but if you screw up then no IT support

Cons

-Very vague promotion/raise policy and performance review guideline, basically the top management makes the rules here -Extremely long hours, 8 hours a day at least you would need on just in the meeting and 4-6 hrs spending each day on emails, reports, projects, ridiculous last minutes super urgent request from boss -Employee performance is measured mainly based on how close your relationship with the management, if you are not on their buddy list, then you gotta have a lot of projects you are working with on hand in order to negotiate the next raise or opportunity within the organization. otherwise you don't expect to get anything excited from the management even you stay and work hard on your full time responsibility for 100+ years, nothing will change. -Lack of direction and attention from the management, since the managers also busy working to make their bosses happy so don't expect they can take good care of the individual contributors like the engineers -Must have the super silky smooth talkative skills like Obama in order to shine your boss's shoes and make them happy to win their trust and get good impression, again, doesn't mean you can get promotion but for some reason you would think that you need to do that. -A lot of tools you need to learn and use every day, otherwise you will get stuck. most of the time the tools are not user-friendly and take you long time to get what you want. Some data integrity issue and at the end you will be ended up in getting just garbage data. -Too many different process you need to be familiar with and people make changes to the process very frequently especially after the re-organization which is happening every -Very competitive in terms of Politics which you want to make sure you play the games right and smart on your role, otherwise you are "screwed". Others can back stab you or give you hard time right on your face. -No career advancement opportunity (only for those chosen candidates who are close to their management) -20 years old coffee maker inside the breakroom you can get in this so called worldclass network & communication company

3.0
Apr 29, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Customers that work with you respect you because you work for a power house company like cisco, and the work is usually engaging, but promotions seem achievable only if you leave the company, or leave the group.

Cons

Was recently passed up on a promotion because i don't kiss butt enough. manager told me to get out there and meet and talk to people, but how can you when you are pigeon holed in your job and cubicle day after day

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