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4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(33,663 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 33,663 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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3.0
Dec 8, 2020

Continuous acquisitions, losses, re-orgs and layoffs.

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Pros

Some of the policies and benefits are good. You can make use of them only, if you are in a good team and under supportive manager, which is rare.

Cons

No focus on building long-term sustainable business. Too many re-orgs & lay offs. Too much of control given to first-level managers. No concept of peer-reviews for performance. Individual feedbacks are hardly considered. Observed the work overloading on Contractors and Visa-holders in majority of the teams, as they always struggle to secure their jobs, agree to do whatever the low-profile work assigned to them by managers. Most managers knowingly do this, that benefits some lazy full time employees with poor performance and too many personal priorities during the work hours, who doesn't have visa limitations. No value for the talent & hard work. Lay off lists are prepared as per the convenience of the managers and HR, to secure their jobs with less or no efforts on identifying the bottom performers who are surviving in the company for decades with high salaries.

1.0
Nov 8, 2020

WORST COMPANY

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Pros

You can get away without working

Cons

- Highly political management and peers as thats what they survive on. - They will keep laying off every 6 months - no one has an idea on how to run a business if you need to do that every year. - Low competent beuraucratic environemnt.

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Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. Cisco is taking steps to evolve how we approach workforce transitions allowing choice and time, where possible. Just as there's diversity with our portfolio, there are a diverse set of ways in which Cisco contributes externally that are in-line with our values and are core to our corporate social responsibility. We have an ongoing process of aligning our investments and resources to meet the evolving needs of our customers and partners. We will always offer our full support to impacted employees.
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