2.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Big Bucks in the bank insulate this company from A LOT of mistakes. Cisco has great benefits, a nine to five culture, very good pay, excellent market share, nice buildings, employees are generally empowered to do stuff (unless it's innovative - see below)
Cons
Absolutely no career growth (unless you want to move to India). No ability to cross over business units or get into new technologies, very static environment. Cisco generally hates people who innovate because that activity is inherently risky. If Cisco wants innovation it will go out an buy it! Mike Volpe once said that Cisco didn't need to do R&D because the whole of Silicon Valley was it's R&D lab.