Cisco Systems India Reviews

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 learning environment,
good people,
challenging and innovative work,
growing company,
market leader,
great products,
building career and great opportunities to build skill

Cons

proper time planning for project should be need,
employee benefits,
bonus,
not good management,
too many managers layer,
employee overworked

Advice to Senior Management

Being a market leader expect great management, should look into employees matter, expect good value, keep looking into the products, always try to be the leader

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

Strong Work life balance,Initial Compensation,Flexibility

Cons

Slow growth
Intolerable gap period
Not a great place for techies

Advice to Senior Management

Assignments according to individual choices/prefernces
More engagement

Pros

Good work life balance
Amazing campus and facilities
Good benefits - transportation, broadband, health checkups
Work is also good (depends on the project)

Cons

Bad/Less Hikes
Takes years for promotion
Hikes are not dependent upon performance, its purely based on budgets and manager's preferences (at least in Bangalore's office)

Advice to Senior Management

Some of the Second level managers are just doing time pass.
They are just interested in interviewing candidates, conducting appraisal. All the hard work is done by engineers and tech leads but they take away all the credit and get awards/stocks

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