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John T. Chambers
Former Employee – worked at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 3 years
Pros – 1. Flexibility to work from home. 2. Result oriented. 3. Wide exposure. 4. Allows to prove oneself in other fields too.
Cons – Need to work at fast pace
Advice to Senior Management – N/A
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-05-21 19:00 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than a year
Pros – Good work and life balance.
Flexible timings and Work From Home options.
Very caring and cooperative management.
Predictable bonus.
Cons – Not 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 Management – Frequent management changes are not very encouraging.
Share current and future project plans in time.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-05-17 03:28 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 7 years
Pros – Good 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.
Cons – It 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 Management – Very 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
2013-04-28 11:03 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 8 years
Pros – Company 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
Cons – Constant 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 Management – Do not change executive leaders too often
– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-04-17 03:48 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Cisco Systems India full-time for less than a year
Pros – Flexibility in timings and lot of fun
Cons – No proper guidance for freshers
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-04-14 13:42 PDT
Former Employee – worked at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than a year
Pros – lots of freedom, accountability and independence, lots of free time.
Cons – Routine work, not many new projects, no regular bonus; this is the reason for attrition. Juniper and Huawei are catchin up.
Advice to Senior Management – Rotation and proper incentivisation would be of great help
2013-04-11 01:58 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 3 years
Pros – Good and great learning experience
Cons – Nothing as such. Great company to work for.
Advice to Senior Management – nothing
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-04-09 21:10 PDT
Current Employee – been working at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 7 years
Pros – Cisco provides tremendous work life balance and a nice stable career. There are so many opportunities for employees to train themselves in different domains.
Cons – There are times when the employees have to wait for some real work to do which is not good for career.
Advice to Senior Management – More engineering decisions will help in the long run.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
2013-04-10 09:08 PDT
Former Employee – worked at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 3 years
Pros – Good culture and nice work environment
Cons – Not much except a few which most of the companies have
2013-04-04 22:33 PDT
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Current Employee – been working at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 3 years
Pros – Very Good Work Culture
Work Life balance
Cons – Lack of Career Growth
Low increments
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
2013-03-07 20:26 PST
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