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      4.1

      83% would recommend to a friend

      (33,561 total reviews)
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      Chuck Robbins

      79% 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 33,561 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
      5.0
      Apr 23, 2008

      Cisco is a fantastic place to work, learn, and collaborate.

      Director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Very collaborative environment where people work across functions to get the job done. I have been at Cisco a year and been very impressed with the caliber of employees and their thinking. I came to learn how other companies work, and have learned a lot about Cisco approach to business stargey form john Chambers himself at town hall meetings. I have been very impressed with the level of involvement John has with employees of this big company -- he is one of the premier business strategists on the planet, and yet is very approachable.

      Cons

      Some vestiges of big company bureaucracy, but that's changing. John Chambers has emphaiszed collaboration and has accelerated this through a series of online initiatives.

      5.0
      Apr 22, 2008

      Cisco Values the Employees

      Customer service
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Cisco is a great company. The are very intune with their employees and conscious of the Life/Work balance. Cisco allow you to telecommute 2 days a week.

      Cons

      Personally, I honestly cannot think of a downside!! Sorry!

      3.0
      Apr 22, 2008

      Cisco System's ASR Program: High School from Hell

      Associate sales representative
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The Associate Sales Representative program is a training program that ultimately feeds into Cisco System's sales force. You are trained thoroughly for about 8 month. Subjects of training include everything from how to be a more confident public speaker, to cold calling, to the obvious training on all of Cisco System's hardware and proprietary software. You are divided into 'teams' within the ASR program and you do most everything during the work day with them. You have a manager that is your 'team leader' and you have a tech manager who is responsible for teaching you the material on Cisco hardware as well as pointing out the relative strengths and weaknesses similar competitive products have. The ideal end result of this program is to take a sales oriented person and tech him or her enough technical information so that this person could sit down in a meeting with a client and speak to a CEO, CFO, CTO and answer all of their questions with the caveat that really technical things will be covered by an Associate Sales Engineer (ASE) who is your more technically savvy counterpart. Cisco's aim is to have ASRs and ASEs work as a team together. This doesnt exactly work out because the ASR to ASE ration is conservatively skewed at 2 to 1 respectively.

      Cons

      I was a part of the Associate Sales Representative program, we are referred to as ASRs within Cisco Systems. The problem working at Cisco is not the upper management or the training; I was very satisfied with those aspects of the job. Your co-workers will make this a miserable experience. The dynamics of the training program were worse than high-school. We were provided with subsidized housing through Cisco and college graduates could not act appropriately. Some were even kicked out of their leases. There were people skinny dipping in the apartment complex's pools, people egging other people's vehicles. It is the farthest thing from a professional behavior you can imagine. The sales staff of Cisco Systems is notoriously cocky and if you speak to anyone on the outside who deals with them on any sort of regular basis, they can confirm this. The program is also set up like indentured servitude. By which I mean, once you have completed the training program you are bound to work for them at a location of their choosing (ultimately it depends on your desirability as a Sales Representative and suitability to the area) for no less than 2 years. If you quit before this period, you are required in your contract to pay them back a subsidized portion of your training.

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