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4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(33,668 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 33,668 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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2.0
Jan 5, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Work hours seem to be 9:00am - 4:45pm (4:15pm on Fridays) so you are able to keep a work-life balance for the most part. Nice friendly colleagues. If you keep your head down, don't rock the boat, and don't think outside the box, you'll do fine.

Cons

Rewards & recognition are hard to come by - you have to work the political game well to get management recognition for your work. Upward mobility is also very hard to achieve with entrenched employees and very little movement, other than horizontal. You are judged not on how well you do your work, but on who you know and your political clout. A very passive-aggressive workforce who will smile in your face and agree with you, then undermine you and not help - only unless it serves them in their political gain. Employee Monsters are easily recognizable, but are allowed to wreak havoc because management avoids all possible conflict (see: passive-aggressive) Definitely an old-school mentality to go along with it's stereotypical "cubeville" work environment.

2.0
Jan 3, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Probably an above average compensation package. They recruit directly from college. Many colleges during good economic times, though only a handful during recessions such as 2009 and going into 2010. Large employee network, even if the diversity is stunted (see Cons).

Cons

Lack of diversity. A random walk around engineering groups seems like they are 3/4 or more south asian. Career advancement is probably typical for large organizations: almost nil and mostly political. Because the customers are mostly enterprise, the work will be mostly performance and cost driven and you rarely have room for feature creativity.

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