Cisco reviews

At the time of offer letter, HR told that the work type will be Development but its totally Sustenance(Bug Fixing). Cisco is not doing good it doesn't have enough money to give hikes to their at least 80% of their employee. Even many of the employees are in CISCO Bangalore who doesn't get the hike for past 2.5 years. If employee asked their managers or higher management they try to scare it by saying that they will fire you and put the bad remarks in your relieving letter. As every year, there is a culture in Cisco to fire the employees. So manager take benefits of it and as there are few networking companies so they are always try to harassing the employees. If anyone joined, managers directly told them that you will not get the hike even if you performed well because you switched the company so you get good amount of hike in comparison to the previous employer. Dirty politics in Cisco. No career growth.

Be aware of constant limited restructuring causes continuous fears of being laid off. Every single one of the five years I've been at Cisco there has been a "silent" 7 to 10 % workforce reduction. There is a culture of hiring people "suck out" that they know and then brutally lay them off. I've seen this happening so many times here at Cisco that I come to the conclusion there is a pattern behind that.. Middle management is real hell and they are afraid of their own shadows. Impossible to be promoted, unless you drop everything your doing and appease your director by chasing the shiny ball. You don't get rewarded for excelling at your daily job, its more important to kiss senior managements rear end and get your "name known". It is all about marketing yourself here. It's not what you do for or with customers all the work need to be done inside. Very political organization.