Cisco reviews

4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(33,573 total reviews)
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79% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Cisco has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 33,573 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
1.0
Oct 12, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great name recognition for your resume. Decent benefits.

Cons

It's a popularity contest through and through. An employee is graded on how well he/she kisses up to management and not performance or productivity. A person can be the most productive and the most technical member of the group and still end up at the bottom 5% for frivolous reasons. Managers only cares about trimming the workforce. Annual layoffs are detrimental to productivity. They will do everything possible to break and humiliate you on your way out.

1.0
Oct 5, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work remotely, good benefits, accommodating to family issues.

Cons

Too political, promotion by cronyism. It is not what you know that allows you to get ahead, it is who you know. The rating and ranking system does not work, a good employee can get rated with Needs Improvement just because a metric needs to be met. You are not rated on your actual value.

1.0
Jul 17, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay OK, benefits good. Pockets of highly qualified and ethical people.

Cons

The latest craze is to centralize everything, officially to promote quicker execution on the turnaround but everyone knows it's to save cost. As a result you now have concentrations of power emerging with little room for diversity of ideas.

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