Cisco Systems Reviews

Pros

Flexible, Agile and promotes collaborative approach.
Transparency between employee and leadership team

Cons

Due to the size of the company, Pace of the career progress growth is slow

Pros

1 Balance of work and life.
2 Decent working environment and casual culture.

Cons

1 Slow and conservative decision.
2 Not exciting.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more advanture and rapid in product and feature development.

Pros

Good benefits
Flexible work options
Nice people

Cons

Near impossible to get promotions

Advice to Senior Management

Promote within or you'll continue to lose great employees.

Pros

Excellent Leadership
Family environment
Solid Benefits Package
Top Engineers
Fast paced, exciting place to work
Great People

Cons

Career growth can be limited in certain situations
Compensation is low compared to the industry standards

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees. A great deal can be learned from the people that are working in the field everyday.

Pros

Market leader always pursuing innovation
Smart people
Opportunity to grow and experience many facets of the organization....no pigeon holing
Flexibility in work arrangements... Telecommuting
Cutting edge productivity tools and technology made available to all employees
Fast paced and broad scope of responsibilities

Cons

Average to lower comp than peer companies
Very large organization....pockets of deep bureaucracy
Takes time to establish connections to navigate politics

Pros

The ability to network and meet a wide range of people with a wide set of skills.

Cons

You may need to work around the clock as it is an international company.

Advice to Senior Management

Managers should know the role of their IT Analyst and IT Engineers, much more fully.

Pros

Great pay with awesome benefits. Tons of highly motivated and highly qualified technical teams. Get to design the most expensive, most complicated systems imaginable and actually see them deployed.

Cons

Management is hostile towards technology. The less technical you are the higher you can rise in the ranks. Engineers and technical individual contributors are second class citizens whose recommendations are largely ignored, then are cut when management's revisions fall flat. Zero accountability of any kind for decision makers.

Advice to Senior Management

Cut the growing middle management tumor from the organization. Governance models need to be flattened extensively as messaging and direction takes months to reach individual contributors. Intangible/immeasurable metrics are pervasive and easily gamed, allowing advancement purely based on who kisses the most ass.

Pros

Career Growth, Healthy Atmosphere, brand

Cons

Salary & Benefits, innovation, downsides that come when you work with big company

Pros

Excellent company, very focused on customer success, classy company, you have ability to make difference, good tools, overall good teamwork

Cons

too many fiefdoms, siloed, cult of John

Pros

Flexible
good pay
outstanding work life balance

Cons

too flexible, people stopped working altogether
If you are creative and have hopes to make a technical career,this is not the place
too big and lot of uncooperative resources

Advice to Senior Management

streamline your resource management