Cisco Systems Reviews in San Jose, CA Area

Pros

I have been enjoyed working at Cisco. The company provided the very good benefits. It is a friendly working env. with many learning oppertunities.

Cons

The company is big, so some of the processes between the dept. are different, which would require some detailed coordinations.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep focused on Cisco's core products. Keep focused on employees. Keep making the company sucessful and keep leading the new technology.

Pros

Great place to learn about networking; especially if you are interested in Cisco Certifications. There are tons of very knowledgeable people in their fields who are happy to help.

Cons

For this particular location I was too far away from family which impacted me negatively; almost lost someone special to me.

Advice to Senior Management

Give more credit to employee when they have done a good job. Get to know your employee better; we are not robots.

Pros

Hard working employees focused on getting job done in collaborative fashion
Good communication and transparency from senior leadership
Opportunities for challenging and interesting work projects
Employees treated with respect; Company shows strong interest in employee welfare/well being

Cons

Big and complex company makes cross functional decision making difficult and slows execution
Ongoing organizational structure churn has created unnecessary distraction

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to reinforce focus on accountability and streamline decision making processes to speed up issue resolution and execution
Stabilize organizational structure

Pros

Great products, great people, time of change.

Cons

Benefits are not as good as my previous employer.

Advice to Senior Management

No advice to offer yet, new to company.

Pros

Work life flexibility, room for career growth, dynamic work environment. Employees can choose to rotate every 1.5 - 2 years and learn something new, or stick with their current role.

Like with all companies, networking is always a plus, and job visibility is very important for career advancement.

Cons

Due to the size of the company, some roles are limited in scope. However, it's relatively easy to pick the right role for you based on job descriptions and interviews.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to focus on the top company priorities. Make Cisco even easier to do business with. Remove bottlenecks in the deal qualification and order processing phases.

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

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

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

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