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4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

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67% positive business outlook

Cisco has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 33,586 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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1.0
Nov 11, 2015
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Pros

there are no positives to be mentioned

Cons

One of the worst ever teams to be a part of, I cant speak for the whole company, but whatever i have heard from several teams points in a very negative direction, the management has a very nasty habit of culling its head count annually, you walk around assuming the worst about your job and then there is the constant nagging fear in the back of your head saying "will they fire me this time?" . But lets stick to CSTG support team more specifically the cspc support team, them management is extremely poor, there is absolutely no work life balance, there was one instance when the manager actually called me to ask where i was when i was working from home sick, there is an overwhelming atmosphere of micro management, where threats of firing is hurled in your direction(not directly of course but its always implied).....but lets assume for a second that all companies have this problem and I am just a disgruntled old employee.......The team that consists mostly of linux administrators are extremely extremely extremely poor technically, they have a feeling that no company will hire them owing to there poor skills and they are absolutely right ..nobody will hire them..... but this is not their fault the company overburdens them with the same monotonous work every single day which sometimes takes more than 10 hours to complete(which literally kills their personal life) ... they are not allowed to learn anything new, because they dont know what to learn(they are sorrounded by self acclaimed technical leads who are actually idiots with no technical skills and are incapable of teaching or advising the other engineers about any new technologies),obviously if you spend enough time around an idiot you end up being one. This company is not preparing you for the future, it is lead by a management team that is stuck in the past and will only lead you in the direction that will eventually destroy your career and leave you unsatisfied and unhappy.

1.0
Aug 10, 2015
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Pros

Laid back environment, good amount of training opportunities. Good internal network, if you last for a decent amount of time and want to move around

Cons

The project I was on got terminated less than 2 months into the 18 months the contract was listed (and supposedly pre-funded) to last. The entire team was let go without notice, and Cisco (nor the agency we worked through) did not issue any notice nor severance. This is unacceptable, and a very horrible business practice that shows the management doesn't know how to plan and doesn't care about it's staff. It's understandable that contract employees ("red" badge ad Cisco calls them) are contingent, but there is no reason an 18 month project shouldn't be have guaranteed funding/payout for at least 3 months or a reasonable notice given. Many folks on the team (myself included) left permanent jobs to take what we were told was a great opportunity to join Cisco and become part of a long-term project, team, with possible conversion to full-time "blue badge" employees. I've heard numerous horror stories from other folks in my network, former employees and contractors as well as recruiters. This seems to be "business as usual" at Cisco and the cost associated with bringing in new staff and quickly getting rid of them...is very wasteful. In many other ways, I noticed the hand does not know what the foot is doing at this company, during my short time there. The team I worked with was originally a startup that Cisco acquired some years ago, they all absolutely HATED the "Cisco way of doing things", which was nearly impossible to get anything done.

1.0
Oct 14, 2014

get out as soon as possible

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There is literally no pros working for this company

Cons

Culture of fear, layoffs every year, indian company

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