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      4.1

      82% would recommend to a friend

      (33,605 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 33,605 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
      Sep 1, 2008

      Neutral overall

      Senior product manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Stability and learning in a relatively safer environment. There are opportunities to move around, so if you'd like to transition into adjacent careers, this might be the place for you. There are some new business units as well that work more or less in startup mode, so there's some opportunities for risk takers as well.

      Cons

      growth slow. Less risk, so less reward. It will not even come close to the experience you might get at a startup. Both in terms of learning as well as potential upside.

      3.0
      Aug 31, 2008

      Cisco has become old and confused

      Senior product manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Cisco built the internet with no protocol religion, even though IP became the defacto standard. There is a lot of diversity in the company, both technically and culturally, which made it an interesting company to be part of. The international aspect of the company and the willingness to incorporate international values also contributes to the cosmopolitan feel of the company.

      Cons

      Parts of the business have become mature technology, and have lost their fun value. The grind of becoming the #1 vendor in many aspects of IT and Telecommunications has turned the exciting place to work, into a technology factory with little innovation and no radical thinking. Producing the numbers for the next quarter is more important than technical innovation or product development. Even the buildings in San Jose look tired and jaded now. Cisco talks about collaboration, it's the buzzword of the year, but very little collaboration exists within Cisco today, this is an empire of ivory towers.

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