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      4.1

      81% would recommend to a friend

      (33,639 total reviews)
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      Chuck Robbins

      78% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

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      Cisco has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 33,639 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 IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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      3.0
      Jun 15, 2008

      Cisco Good Place to Work, wished for better career advancement

      Customer support engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good Job Security - Good place to build experience. Great first job, with lots of benefits. I work in support, and Cisco has a good system to ensure that I do not bring my work home. Also, for the support field, I am surprised how well Cisco Support Engineers are paid. Salary is definite plus. Additionally, pursing a Cisco Certification within Cisco is easy and inexpensive. There are many experts on hand to help the learning process.

      Cons

      Bureaucracy. Stifling young talent. Too narrow a scope of expertise, not enough interdisciplinary education or work. I wish sometimes Cisco Management will quick recognize who is a top performer and the motivated and talented folks are. Then promote them or encourage them to keep their development. Currently we only do performance reviews once every year and it seems the distribution of incentives is poor.

      4.0
      Jun 15, 2008

      Good place to work between companies of this size and maturity

      technical leader i
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Being a relatively big company and including a great number of different business units Cisco offers lots of opportunities to be exposes to different technologies. As an financially successful company Cisco offers stability and nice (but not great) compensation and benefits package. Between so big number of employees it is easy to find many of really smart ones though the average level is not that high.

      Cons

      Cisco is devoting lots of focus to protecting legacy products and, in some sense, it puts breaks to innovation drive and presents some inertia of thinking. Managers are generally competent technically but the level of politics vs. awards for taking rsk for the decision makes managers to go on the safe side.

      4.0
      Jun 14, 2008

      Great place to work but be ready to work hard!

      Services sales
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Ability to learn and grow. Compensation is very good with a combination of base salary and commission. There is a great opportunity to get stock options too. There is a tremendous amount of web based internal training in every technology. Also, Cisco has a saying "East your own dog food" meaning they provide you with the tools like cell phone, VPN access from home including a router, Cisco IP phone and video camera.

      Cons

      Crazy work schedule. Lots of pressure to perform, sell and drive revenue. Also there is a lot of pressure to do a lot of not core job work like business development, presentations to inernal teams, lots of reports and systems to keep updateded with forecasting, ect... There is a lack of coordination between hardware sales and services sales. Often, there is limited time to respond to custmer request albeit SOWs, RFP...

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