Cisco Systems Engineer Manager reviews

4.8

100% would recommend to a friend

(8 total reviews)
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Chuck Robbins

100% approve of CEO

20% positive business outlook

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8 reviews
3.0
May 11, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Overall, great people. Most are willing to chip in and help out across teams. Competitive pay though it is slipping. Still have several solid products. One of the best sales channels in the industry.

Cons

Lots of uncertainty as the company refocuses in FY11. I expect to see several long time team members choose to leave the company during the next few months. Expense budgets continue to shrink but expectations of employees are increasing. Do more with less. Headcount constraints are serious issue as back-fills are not being approved. Competitive hires are difficult to acquire due to compensation falling behind the industry average.

4.0
Jul 29, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexibility is probably the key benefit to working at Cisco. We have the ability (and also the responsibility) to manage our work/life in whatever why we feel is appropriate. We are measured on results, and not (always) on being politically visable.

Cons

We are not as good at giving feedback as we would like to believe. Cisco is very open in giving positive feedback, and if something goes very wrong, we are very open addressing it and improving on it. However when things run 'ok' the organisation never really takes time to feedback and improve on it.

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