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Cisco Systems India Reviews in Bangalore, India Area

Updated May 21, 2013
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3.7 180 reviews

                             

94% Approve of the CEO

Cisco Systems India Chairman & CEO John T. Chambers

John T. Chambers

(65 ratings)

81% of employees recommend this company to a friend
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Bangalore (India)

Former Employee – worked at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 3 years

Pros1. Flexibility to work from home. 2. Result oriented. 3. Wide exposure. 4. Allows to prove oneself in other fields too.

ConsNeed to work at fast pace

Advice to Senior ManagementN/A

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

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Bangalore (India)

Current Employee – been working at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than a year

ProsGood work and life balance.
Flexible timings and Work From Home options.
Very caring and cooperative management.
Predictable bonus.

ConsNot many options for career growth.
Need to negotiate more before joining the company. Once if u r in , career and packages grows very slower.
Need to be proactive to select a competitive work. Management allows u to work on an exciting project if you insist for it.
Most of employees need to follow up actively to get to know any new works are coming.
No profit sharing and no stock options.

Advice to Senior ManagementFrequent management changes are not very encouraging.
Share current and future project plans in time.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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Bangalore (India)

Current Employee – been working at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 7 years

ProsGood place to work. No dearth of good work. They always plan ahead and try to be ahead of the crowd in technology, product and quality etc.

ConsIt depends mainly on the employee on what or which way they want to steer their career. Employee get lots of opportunity for the career advancement and they have to catch and hold on to it.

Advice to Senior ManagementVery alert and they make things happen quickly.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

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Bangalore (India)

Current Employee – been working at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 8 years

ProsCompany keeps evolving with products-even though it is big, promising future
Flexible work timings and ownership model of work
Working on new products every visualized by others
Since Cisco is leaders as an employee, you will get respect from other software companies, it becomes somewhat easy to find another job

ConsConstant senior executive changes, products evolution is good but not constant leadership change.
Though company is having money in bank not a recession employee work experience safe guarder, provides job security threats
Late night meetings & work

Advice to Senior ManagementDo not change executive leaders too often

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

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Bangalore (India)

Current Employee – been working at Cisco Systems India full-time for less than a year

ProsFlexibility in timings and lot of fun

ConsNo proper guidance for freshers

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

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Bangalore (India)

Former Employee – worked at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than a year

Proslots of freedom, accountability and independence, lots of free time.

ConsRoutine work, not many new projects, no regular bonus; this is the reason for attrition. Juniper and Huawei are catchin up.

Advice to Senior ManagementRotation and proper incentivisation would be of great help

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Bangalore (India)

Current Employee – been working at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 3 years

ProsGood and great learning experience

ConsNothing as such. Great company to work for.

Advice to Senior Managementnothing

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

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Bangalore (India)

Current Employee – been working at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 7 years

ProsCisco provides tremendous work life balance and a nice stable career. There are so many opportunities for employees to train themselves in different domains.

ConsThere are times when the employees have to wait for some real work to do which is not good for career.

Advice to Senior ManagementMore engineering decisions will help in the long run.

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Former Employee – worked at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 3 years

ProsGood culture and nice work environment

ConsNot much except a few which most of the companies have

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Bangalore (India)

Current Employee – been working at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 3 years

ProsVery Good Work Culture
Work Life balance

ConsLack of Career Growth
Low increments

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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