Cisco Systems India Reviews in Bangalore, India Area

Pros

It has a great work life balance.
Work from home really makes things simple.
The work culture is very good. People are helpful.
Very good information and knowledge sharing mechanisms.

Cons

Very difficult to get good rating even if you work hard
Not all business units have good work. You might be bored in some of those which are not making profits and don't have stimulating work

Advice to Senior Management

Please recognize the efforts of employees more.

Pros

Not good for starting a career as will be bogged down by seniors ahead of you and might not get opportunity to work on cool stuff. if you have some expertise gained elsewhere come here to enhance it with best.

Cons

you do not get big picture if working in one department for years.

Advice to Senior Management

Fair chance to everyone

Pros

Good to be here in CISCO

Cons

Should encourage the people to move across the groups

Advice to Senior Management

Not sure of any thing currently as all the old management team left the company

Pros

Wonderful opportunities inside the company to learn different technologies.
Can move from one team to another after a completion of around 18 months in a team.
Flexible timings. Can work from home.

Cons

Salary hikes are not upto the market standard.

Advice to Senior Management

Give some salary hikes this year :)

Pros

Industry leader, Latest technology, good learning environment

Cons

Growth opportunities are generally limited

Advice to Senior Management

Growth opportunities are generally limited, this needs to be worked on.

Pros

Great work culture, superb building facility, encouraging management, best in class pay package, and great work peers. What more can you ask!

Cons

Not so many actually, but it would be a great relief if they start to learn to recognize individual achievements better.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing the good job and stay focused on the core business areas. Bring in better measures to honor hard work and contributions of individuals.

Pros

technologies and learning opportunities, challenges in work , innovative in execution

Cons

Salary might not be on par with other companies

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

Cisco is one of the best place to work. You would notice same company culture & standards all Cisco offices across the globe. Cisco gives lot of important to its core values and ethics. You never notice partiality or unethical behavior in your day to day life over here. If you have offer from Cisco, there is no reason to think twice.

Cisco pay lot of attention to employee benefits, it doesn’t need to be always cash benefit, other benefits like health insurance, and bonus etc are best compare to industry.

Work life balance,
flexibility in work,
Working from home,
Technical exposure,
Great Leadership
Wonderful internal culture
Very relaxed work environment

Cons

Pay is slightly lower than market,
Promotions and pay hikes takes longer than expected
Too Process oriented
No travel opportunity

Advice to Senior Management

Give importance to technical people and make it as pure tech company as once upon a time. Over the years Cisco became a managers company thus all great people leaving the company due to focus change. Managers are biggest white elephants to company these days.

Adjust salary’s and promotions as per market. You should have local policy rather than stick to one single global policy reg promotions and pay hikes.

Pros

work life balance.
if you want to do CCIE you get 3 attempts free here.
if you are frequent traveler you can do wfh when you are at home.

Cons

promotions are not based on performance, its given to people who know to talk unnecessarily in meetings
My performance rate is E+ (which means im in top 25%) there ha.s been no hike for the last 3
years inspite of the fact that the company is doing well in the market. lot of employees are angry on this issue.

Advice to Senior Management

Please decide the promotions based on performance not based on lip service, please don't do politics especially in R & D.All managers should have some technical knowledge then only they can understand the complex things his engineer is doing

Pros

flexible working hours
Work from home
Excellent transport

Cons

Too much bureaucratic
Work is not that good