Does Cisco pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Cisco employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.0 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Cisco. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Cisco?

82% of Cisco employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Cisco 4.3 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.2 for culture and values and 3.9 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Cisco?

Software Engineer (3666) , Senior Software Engineer (1003) , Program Manager (621) , Project Manager (603) , Account Manager (593) , Network Consulting Engineer (493) , Systems Engineer (463) , Network Engineer (449) , Technical Consulting Engineer (417) , Business Analyst (412) , Technical Leader (353) , Product Manager (328) , Senior Manager (328) , Technical Lead (326) , Director (324)

What are the pros of working at Cisco according to real employee reviews?

"The culture is great and the in person offices were very cool" ((in 2827 reviews)); "Worked for Cisco for over 10 years the best I can say Benefits are good." ((in 2744 reviews)); "Great people and teams who have a strong tradition of doing right by the customer and a passion for winning." ((in 2122 reviews)); "work culture is good and balanced" ((in 1213 reviews)); "cisco is a good place becuase it does not make you work like crrazy and they pay you well enough" ((in 1097 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Cisco according to real employee reviews?

"frequent reorgs and layoffs made environment more toxic" ((in 1929 reviews)); "Poor management (both middle and top)" ((in 873 reviews)); "Bad Managers were promoted." ((in 646 reviews)); "Too much politics; people don't work for the common goal but to justify their existence" ((in 200 reviews)); "Middle and upper management seems very oblivious." ((in 182 reviews))

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4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(33,604 total reviews)

Chuck Robbins

78% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

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4.3

Diversity & inclusion

4.3

Work/Life balance

4.2

Culture & values

4.0

Compensation and benefits

3.9

Career opportunities

3.6

Senior management

Cisco has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 33,604 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0

Sep 8, 2014

In Transition

Manager human resources

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CEO approval

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Pros

Culture of decency, intelligence - a place where most of the employee base is collaborative, well-wishing, open and focused on mutual success.

Cons

Transformation today pressures most departments to execute while still figuring out what they should execute, and even as transparency in diminishing relative to past times. Coordinated strategy-building is difficult with this amount of change, and without more open communication about in-the-moment navigation.

1.0

Aug 20, 2013

24 years as technical support engineer

Tac engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great customer experience. Bleeding edge technology

Cons

They get rid of long time employees and outsource their work to India and Costa Rica. The customer support suffers and the customer satisfaction plummets and all they care about is the bottom line. There is no loyalty anymore. They do not care about the employee or the customer. It is all about metrics. Take a case close a case.

1.0

Oct 22, 2012

It's like the Army with a decent paycheck

Senior manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Your paycheck didn't bounce even during the worst of the last recession.

Cons

You could remove 5 of the top 6 layers of management and no one would notice, except things would get done. Hopeless groups of managers having meetings about having meetings.

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