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Cisco Systems – “Cisco, very top heavy”

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Aug 29, 2009

3.0

Details

Employee Morale	3.5
Career Opportunities	2.0
Work/Life Balance	3.5
Fairness & Respect	1.5
Recognition & Feedback	2.5
Senior Leadership	2.5
Communication	2.0
Compensation & Benefits	4.0

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Cisco Systems Software Engineer IV in San Jose, CA: (Current Employee)

Pros

Financially stable company. For the most part work environment is flexible. CEO is dynamic. 4 weeks vacation is great. Well run company.

Cons

Too much bureaucracy. Very top heavy. Decisions made a lower levels are too mind boggling. Very disjointed. Not easy to transfer jobs. Internal jobs are posted even though hiring decisions are already made.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't forget the employees. Get rid of middle management and layers. There are too many directors without any reports, Don't get cheap by cutting down on beverages. It actually costs the company since people leave campus for lunch instead of spending 10 mins at desk with their choice beverage.

Comments (4)

Aug 30, 2009

by cto:

Cisco's CTO is a moron.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/37401

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Aug 30, 2009

by Anonymous:

You shouldn't be disrespectful of morons by lumping them in the same group as Padmasree Warrior

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Sep 14, 2009

by ok:

I bet Cisco is even having a tough time attracting/recruiting competent executives and now has to settle for hiring the bottom of the barrel dregs, like Padmasree Warrior.

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Sep 19, 2009

by RTP:

But she has a following on tweeter. Give me a break! We need more SVPs to come in from Notel and Sun Micro. And tha'll really nail our coffins. John is just buying himself time till he gets to the 62 year mark, then he'll allow dividends for the stock and he can collect Social Security. Not impress with his leadership skills, got a good line of BS and that's about it. Let's create another leadership council to provide guidence to the other councils.

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