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4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(33,630 total reviews)
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78% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Cisco has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 33,630 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
1.0
Jun 19, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

1st job after college. been there for last 10 years. looking for a change of career as cisco stock sucks !!

Cons

stock performance is bad. company has too many politics to get serious work done. company is too management heavy and too few engineers to do the actual job

1.0
Apr 28, 2011

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Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some of the new engineers (new graduates) put it this way. Their salary may be the lowest among their classmates but their hourly rate at Cisco is definitely the highest!

Cons

Chambers deploys an outdated management trick by letting go the so called "bottom performers" every year (sometimes it is 5%, 10%, or 20% depending on the economy). So you may receive persecution from your manager for no obvious reasons only because she/he has to please Chambers who has shown little accountability himself.

3.0
Jan 14, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good brand name can while away time doing nothing as lot of people do if inquisitive enough can learn a lot about markets, products , technical architecture in general

Cons

Too much politics. Appreciation by mouth isnt good enough and thats what you get from higher up . Need to play politics and keep whining or threatening about leaving, you might get something then. Being new to work full time didnt play my cards well and kept to myself. Lot of guys know nothing but talk and eventually they take the pie and you are left with crumbs. As a new hire fresh off the school and under choice it is fun. Fast forward a year, you see you havent done anything to be proud of. It strikes to you , you knew much more when you were in school than now. You were much more marketable before than now!! Advice: learn as much as you can , once you see its slowing down , get out before you become totally unemployable!!

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