Cisco reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(33,614 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 33,614 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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2.0
Jul 30, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good cafeterias -- with both healthy choices and not-so-much. Some nice buildings, although the nicer buildings have smaller cubicles.

Cons

Cisco is an engineer-centric society, much to its own detriment. Cisco had an HR department website instead of new-employee orientation. Despite the steady stream of complaints from employees about the user hostility of the internal HR website, Cisco persisted in forcing its employees to rely on a highly unreliable internal HR website, much to the frustration of everyone involved. Cisco management seemed hell-bent on working its employees days, nights, and weekends -- all the while chanting the Work-Life Balance buzzwords as hypocritical propaganda. Other companies work hard to instill and encourage and maintain mutual respect so that each and every employee, from board room to mail room engage with kindness and respect. Not Cisco. Horrendous coffee.

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Hi there, thank you for your review. Cisco does actually have a new-employee orientation, I went through it myself! In addition to the website HR offers many other resources, including a hotline for all HR inquiries. We also stand by our Work-Life Balance benefit, but it's up to each individual to make manage their time so that they can use it. We're very sorry that you did not have a good experience and will certainly take your feedback into serious consideration.
1.0
Jun 21, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Excellent facilities. Great cab service.

Cons

Management does not have clear goal of what they want their employees to do. Higher ups are selfish and care just for themselves. There are no hikes or promotions for years together.

1.0
Jun 9, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Highly competent staff. Great benefits. Good pay. Great campus.

Cons

The people who were promoted were the best at gaming the system. The people who told the truth even constructively were punished for it. Metrics ran roughshod over employees. No metric too small to be driven. Cisco will stop at nothing to satisfy a customer, including employees working nights, weekends, and everything in between. When I left the company, I felt like I was on vacation when I stopped working on the weekends.

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