Pros

- Flexible working hours: it does not matter when or how long you work as long as the job gets done
- Work from home: you are given the flexibility of working from anywhere as long as what you are asked for is done properly
- Good benefits

Cons

- HR is inexistent: they never answer employee inquiries, never answer phone, email or voice mail left to them by employees
- HR avoids answering any questions with regards to salary increase, grades....
- Managers find it smart to pay as little as possible to employees and not promote them
- Too tactical and focused on the commits of every week
- You will close to never get a salary increase or promotion: there is always a freeze
- Finance and HR do their best to cut benefits and salaries if possible
- HR keeps reminding you that you are lucky to work for Cisco
- Unfair in terms of equal employment opportunity: a lot of new positions are not announced and are arranged by managers to be taken by certain people before you ever hear about any of them

Advice to Senior Management

- Take care of your employees: they are all you have got and competition will be more than glad to hire them
- Focus on strategy on the regional and country levels instead of the narrow sighted weekly commitments
- HR to frequently review the status of employees that have been with the company for more than five years and got no promotions: try to understand what is behind it and do not leave this to first line managers only
- stop bragging about being a top company: you do not pay like one
- Be FAIR