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Cisco Systems – “Good place to work just don't expect any promotions

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Sep 8, 2009

3.0

Cisco Systems Systems Engineer:   (Current Employee)

Pros

Good salary
Great people
Woking with a well-known and hghly respected organzation
Working witrh an orgranzation that is global

Cons

Very political, it's not if you do a good job, it's how others think that you are doing. Getting ahead isn't really about doing the job but by doing pet projects that aren't related to you job but show that you think "outside of the box" and take initative..
Almost impossible to get a promotion, easiest way is to be in direct sales. As long as your team is making quota (on the direct sales side) they give them out like candy. But if you are in any tupe of support role they are very hard to come by. I was with the company 5+ years and never promoted even though got good ratings. If you have a team of ten or fifteen you better be ranked #1 or #2 in your group to get the promotion, which is hard to do b/c there's always a superstar.

Advice to Senior Management

No advice, b/c things will stay the ways they've always been.

Comments (3)

Sep 8, 2009

by Great People ?:

The people are nasty. Some people are lazy. Some are dumb. I have never worked with any one who I think is top-notch. The nasty ones will stab you in the back to get ahead. Some of the worst cretins I ever worked with.
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Sep 18, 2009

by yeah Great People:

@ Great People - I can tell your not in Field Sales or you wouldn't be saying that.
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Oct 9, 2009

by your colleague:

Like we are in the same team. :-)
Can't agree more on:
"Getting ahead isn't really about doing the job but by doing pet projects that aren't related to you job but show that you think "outside of the box" and take initative.."
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