Cisco reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(33,610 total reviews)
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Chuck Robbins

78% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Cisco has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 33,610 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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34K reviews
2.0
Jan 8, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- you can work from home. - relaxed dress code - pay check isn't going to bounce

Cons

- very high workload, can get ridiculous when covering for absent colleagues. - no training. - no annual pay rises, irrespective of performance. So each year your efforts are rewarded with an effective pay cut as inflation eats into your competitive starting salary of 5 years before! - limited/no career progression. - Benefits steadily cut - the joke in the offices is that soon we will have to pay for our own toilet paper. - employees now have to pay for own broadband and mobile phones - which the company still expects you to use for cisco business - figure that one out. - expected to be on call virtually 24 hours a day. - A performance review process which is laughable - break your back or sit back - no difference.

1.0
Nov 5, 2009

Career Killer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is incredibly stable and nothing will ever happen. Its great if you want to make sure you have job and income stability.

Cons

Just like the pro, nothing ever happens. You will not advance despite your skills and performance. They are a merger company and gain talent through acquisitions. Unless you are upper management avoid at all costs.

1.0
Aug 24, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cisco is a great name to have on your CV. Represents a good opportunity to meet lots of big customers and do some big deals.

Cons

This is one arrogant company. The general view is that we should feel very lucky to be here, and that staff are expendable. There is no real opportunity to progress, you can only get on by sucking up to the right people. Praise for doing a good job does not exist. The company is making the job as hard as it can in a tough environment, in the hope that people walk, as they have over recruited already and don't want to make people redundant. UK management team are not industry leaders, just yes men to the US and only understand management metrics for monitoring staff. The people who have been doing a good job successfully for years get over looked and taken for granted, while the self promoting "connected" brown nosers get promoted. Was once good, now like every other big slow arrogant beast.

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