Cisco reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(33,644 total reviews)
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Chuck Robbins

78% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Cisco has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 33,644 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
4.0
Aug 5, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Excellent pay (includes bonus), good benefits, flexible hours, lots of different things going on in the company if you want to switch. Company is the leader in the core of the internet, which is a huge plus as the world revolves ever more around the internet.

Cons

Cisco's upper management has grandiose hopes to lead the world in anything related to the internet, and frankly we don't have the expertise in things like tablets, social networking, etc. That is stretching the company thin and putting undo pressure on developers. Job security has not been good over the past decade, with layoffs every couple of years. Morale is currently very bad. Stock is at trading at 1998 levels.

3.0
Jul 21, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You are always at the cutting edge of technology. You relearning new technologies and products. It is still the leader in networking. Access to huge internal technical knowledge base. Highly experienced and educated field engineers. Good benefits package. Cisco is brand.

Cons

Salary is below the one competitors offered. Tough competitive situation on the market. Quality of software is decreasing. No clear KPI for promotion. Company prefers to hire external people than promote internal.

3.0
Jul 17, 2011

A great company, with deep talent pool

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good, open culture Many smart people in engineering, and management good employee benefits

Cons

very large. too many managers, hence empire building too many processes and overhead slow decision making

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