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4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(33,614 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 33,614 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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4.0
Oct 2, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I was hired by Cisco choice program, in which new hires can choose their teams based on how they like to work or who to work for. Since most teams need more people, managers squeeze their brains to attract the new hires into their team. Before the new hires choose their teams, they are exposed to most information about projects and benefits or drawbacks of each team which is tipped by managers, who pamper the new hires badly (I thought I'm the king of cisco during the period - once I chose my team, my heyday was over..). This is an example of cisco how this company tries to lay out best environment for their employees.

Cons

The largest problem in cisco is its size. It is a big guy, which means its decision making process is very slow. Officially my reporting structure is not that complicated; manager, general manager, director, and VP (there are more, but in my position, I doubt that I can see anyone of them). But there are also inofficial small team structures here as well and of course some politics. Thus in order for me to convey my idea and make it adopted by my team, do you know how many people I have to convince?

3.0
Oct 1, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits and lots of different opportunities to move to within the company. They do a good job of recognizing and rewarding extra effort put in to help customers and internal processes.

Cons

Mediocre engineering talent. There are not enough really good engineers to interact with and learn from. This can make the environment very exhausting/isolating as you have to explain the basics over-and-over again. Many of the development processes are very manual which makes things time-consuming and error-prone. The acquired companies don't always integrate completely and tend to stay off in their own world instead of leveraging existing infrastructure already in place and in use by other parts of the company.

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