Cisco reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(33,599 total reviews)
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Chuck Robbins

79% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Cisco has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 33,599 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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4.0
Oct 13, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good company with solid benefits and great ability to work at home or at the office. They strive for flexibility and provide the tools to make it happen.

Cons

Company is going through a lot of realignment and change and is choosing to accomplish this through consistent layoffs each August after the fiscal year closes. Instead of retraining they fire and bring in new younger blood. The lament that not enough people leave the company each year as their attrition rate is 3% and John Chambers would like to see it at 10%. They lose a lot of good people with this approach.

1.0
Oct 5, 2014

Disappointed

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Still a good brand name. If you want to get into Silicon Valley one of the stepping stones. There is a history behind the company.

Cons

Innovation is dead. It is driven only by innovation. The middle management is incompetent and clueless. Turnover is extremely high. The salaries are mediocre. The company is a political minefield.

1.0
Jul 23, 2014

Life at Cisco

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Big Company, Not much work. If you like to play politics and not work hard, then this is the company for you.

Cons

Too much politics, no meritocracy, who you know matters more than what you know. People are promoted based on who they know and hard working people do not get rewarded.

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