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      4.1

      81% would recommend to a friend

      (33,628 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 33,628 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
      Jun 27, 2011

      Good place but becoming very corporate and now having to reinvent itself

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good benefits - lots of meaningful work, very high quality engineers.

      Cons

      Becoming too large and high overhead - brings some of the usual slowness and some bonehead policies. Rating system is really negative with forced placement of people into "bottom 5%" for example (the old discredited GE system).

      3.0
      May 12, 2011

      Best time is over

      Software qa engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Cisco is still a big name with solid technology, 20 days of vacation per year, a lot of onsite services.

      Cons

      way too political, management forces teams to change every minor details like which day we start and end the sprint, painful tools to support process.

      3.0
      Apr 27, 2011

      Cisco's issues are with its middle management.

      Senior technical writer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Opportunities within the company High salary Women are treated equally Liberal work-at-home policy Excellent benefits

      Cons

      Long hours Inept mddle management Lack of opportunities within one's department Fear of having your job sent overseas Older workers are encouraged to leave with early retirement, taking their skills and expertise with them. Management needs to be assessed and culled.

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