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      4.1

      81% would recommend to a friend

      (33,667 total reviews)
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      Chuck Robbins

      78% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

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      4.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      4.2

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Senior management

      Cisco has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 33,667 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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      34K reviews
      3.0
      Mar 8, 2009

      An engineer's view about work at Cisco

      Software engineer iii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1. Great learning opportunity: like a university: what you learn depends on how much you want to learn. There are e-courses and class room training. However with the downturn and the cost cutting, class room training is being discouraged. 2. Diversity in terms of gender at the worker bee level. Its refreshing to see so many females as software engineer after coming from a company where I was the only one. 3. Volunteering opportunities, within the company and outside. There are employee inclusion and diversity groups which one could join and work for a cause. 4. Flex timing and ability to work from home at times. 5. Charity: Encourages charity and also matches donations through its I-Give program.

      Cons

      1. First level and second level managers are inept. They have no leadership skills at all and do not care about employee growth. Its something to wonder about as to how they are rated. 2. Too much politics in the departments: whether you move up depends on who you know. 3. No transparency in review process or in compensation. 4. No consistency in work hours: some people work hard for only 3 months in the whole year. Whereas there are departments where the midnight oil is burnt almost throughout the year. 5. Officially supposed to encourage movement within the company. However the reality is that most jobs are filled by someone who the manager knows, even before the requisition is officially out.

      5.0
      Feb 15, 2009

      Good company to work with

      Senior hardware engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Cisco offers reasonable pay, ranked as top 25 paid company by CNN. Good name recognition. 4 weeks vacation. No major layoffs or RIF yet.

      Cons

      Long hours: 9 am - 7 pm. Might be common in bay area, but it's two hours more compared with east coast. The company headquarter sites in San Jose, a very expensive area.

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