Cisco reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(33,620 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 33,620 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 16, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good place to learn networking technology. Good people at the lowest ranks. Not a sweat-shop.

Cons

Incompetent senior management that is unbelievably short sighted. Promotions are only possible by being hand-picked by a VP who are the least qualified. The result is chains of incompetent management. Marketing is ridiculously superficial and self-serving. Development is cheap and poor quality. Indeed Chambers is a great CEO. He's an excellent business manager, visionary and leader. However, Chambers is a horrible technical manager and cannot make Cisco into the world-class company we should be. As proof, see the recent departure of Alan Baratz. Great technical VP who barely lasted 6 months. Stock has gone nowhere in 10 years and this is the cause.

2.0
Mar 10, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good people at the field level overall - Pay and work life balance are good

Cons

- Executive leadership is so out of touch with reality it is pathetic. They make decisions without any feedback from the field. We are not an innovative company and are not focused on the right areas of growth like AI, accelerated computing, etc.. - Tons of administrative work that is not helpful or focused on customers. Too many overlay resources that distract from customers and selling and force dumb tasks to validate their own existence - Products are getting worse and we have less and less resources to support technically - Consistent layoffs have demoralized the company while the ELT keeps making millions a year and have failed us as a company, but take no responsibility

1.0
Aug 15, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Friends/coworkers Benefits Stock Purchase Program

Cons

Toxic Leadership at MPO level and above. Political hires Lack of swim lanes Lack of compensation and transparency (Ive been at microsoft, Azure etc and I have never seen such a manual process) Political "check-ins" with toxic leadership at CEO and HR forcing the agenda (I don't come to work to listen to social justice programs that alienate people, I come to learn about what we're doing to innovate, progress and our strategy) Goaling component is a nightmare and we are losing more money than we already have No budget to travel and make an impact. Competition is killing us and continues to do so because leadership. Toxic MPO leadership that has destroyed our team cohesion.

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