Cisco Systems Reviews | Glassdoor
Cisco Systems Reviews
Companies
  • Jobs
  • Companies
  • Salaries
  • Interviews

    Cisco Systems Reviews

    Updated July 24, 2017
    11,330 reviews

    Filter

    Filter

    Full-timePart-time
    3.9
    StarStarStarStarStar
    Rating TrendsRating Trends
    Recommend to a friend
    Approve of CEO
    Cisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins
    Chuck Robbins
    2,288 Ratings

    11,330 Employee Reviews

    Sort: PopularRatingDate
    Pros
    Cons
    More Pros and Cons
    1. Featured Review

      Helpful (9)

      "Let's Talk - From a Cisco Culture Enthusiast's Perspective"

      StarStarStarStarStar
      • Work/Life Balance
      • Culture & Values
      • Career Opportunities
      • Comp & Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Senior Marketing Program Manager in Research Triangle Park, NC
      Current Employee - Senior Marketing Program Manager in Research Triangle Park, NC
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Cisco Systems full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      BFPWGP or Best Freaking Place to Work, Grow and Play!
      I have been with Cisco for 11 years and I am truly excited each day because I have an opportunity to think about my current role, my opportunity to grow and most important my value to the community and believe it or not earth.
      In my role, i have learned so much about the importance of Sustainability and how WE need to sever the umbilical cord to Mother Earth. Cisco creates conscious citizens that are culturally responsible and push beyond their wildest imagination. I encourage you to find an opportunity here at Cisco, I promise you will have a lasting career. #LoveWhereYouWork.

      Cons

      There is a lack of diversity in Cisco although great strides being made. we have a ways to go. i encourage to explore more diversity at the mid level management level.

      Advice to Management

      Continue to develop and improve diversity at the mid level management level. This only enhances the diverse perspectives for our Company.

      Cisco Systems Response

      Mar 31, 2017 – Social Media Manager

      BFPWGP - you created a new acronym! Glad you feel that way - eleven years speaks that, too! You're right, diversity is key to a successful company - and I'm also seeing much more focus from Cisco in... More

    2. "Territory Account Manager"

      StarStarStarStarStar
      • Work/Life Balance
      • Culture & Values
      • Career Opportunities
      • Comp & Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Cisco Systems full-time

      Pros

      Great culture, invest in their employees success

      Cons

      If you can not operate in a fast paced high pressure environment then this is NOT the job for you!

      Advice to Management

      Keep up the great work!

      3. Join the Cisco Systems team
      See Our Latest Jobs

    3. "Financial Analyst"

      StarStarStarStarStar
      • Work/Life Balance
      • Culture & Values
      • Career Opportunities
      • Comp & Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Former Employee - Financial Analyst in San Jose, CA
      Former Employee - Financial Analyst in San Jose, CA
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Cisco Systems full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Remote work for some positions. Great benefits. Yearly company shutdown time off and generous paid time off. Excellent salary. Great company for early in career employees.

      Cons

      Some of management should not be managing people as they have no idea what that involves and they lose people.

      Advice to Management

      ELT needs to look closer at middle management and hold them accountable.

    4. "Network Consulting Engineer"

      StarStarStarStarStar
      • Work/Life Balance
      • Culture & Values
      • Career Opportunities
      • Comp & Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Network Consulting Engineer in New York, NY
      Current Employee - Network Consulting Engineer in New York, NY
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Cisco Systems (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Cisco is a fantastic place to work if you love technology.

      Cons

      The pay is not what you could make in the private sector.

      Advice to Management

      People cant pay their bills with stocks and PTO days, and a bonus is not always guaranteed. Pay people what they are worth and leave the other pieces as added perks.

    5. "Cisco comments"

      StarStarStarStarStar
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Cisco Systems full-time

      Pros

      Cisco is a progressive technology company with vision.

      Cons

      Management is not transparent at times

    6. "Consulting project"

      StarStarStarStarStar
      • Work/Life Balance
      • Culture & Values
      • Career Opportunities
      • Comp & Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Former Employee - Assistant in Irvine, CA
      Former Employee - Assistant in Irvine, CA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Cisco Systems part-time

      Pros

      The environment in Cisco is very nice and the leader of our project is responsible and willing to help

      Cons

      It seems like that the development in Cisco is not as promising as it was before.

    7. "Always changing, never boring - which is a blessing and a curse ..."

      StarStarStarStarStar
      • Work/Life Balance
      • Culture & Values
      • Career Opportunities
      • Comp & Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - CSE in Boston, MA
      Current Employee - CSE in Boston, MA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Cisco Systems full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Great company culture, with no penny pinching, solid training and amazingly intelligent colleagues.

      Opportunity to make some great money.

      I support and sell a mature, industry leading product.

      Full time work from home, with a reasonable travel schedule.

      Cons

      Things change constantly. Every year is another guess as to wether our team stays together, or not.

      Despite selling a great product, it's not getting the focus is needs to stay innovative.

      Advice to Management

      Support the good products better - more development, more training.
      Stability! GSSO is barely 4 years old and already changed dramatically from it's early days. Let us get comfortable in our territories, products and teams!

    8. "Great Company"

      StarStarStarStarStar
      • Work/Life Balance
      • Culture & Values
      • Career Opportunities
      • Comp & Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Cisco Systems full-time (More than 8 years)

      Pros

      Great company to work for as long as your willing to put in the time and effort. Great benefits, compensations and bonuses. Amazing innovative people and huge ideas and opportunity to act on them. The flexibility and work life balance is great as long as you take advantage of the PTO. Employee commitment is there in good times. Company meetings are amazing. Food services provided are a nice touch.

      Cons

      Way to many layoffs, reorganizations, restructure of groups. Cant keep a leader for more than a year for the past 5 years. When time gets a little tight layoffs or major budget cuts happen which makes it unmanageable to handle your daily tasks. , meanwhile 40B in the bank. I say reduce leadership spend (salary) to save employees jobs

      Advice to Management

      Look out for the employees more, by trying to retain them versus layoff. Think outside the box and do something new...

    9. "Account Manager"

      StarStarStarStarStar
      • Work/Life Balance
      • Culture & Values
      • Career Opportunities
      • Comp & Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Account Manager in San Jose, CA
      Current Employee - Account Manager in San Jose, CA
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Cisco Systems full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Great benefits, awesome culture, ability to work with intelligent peers and managers who are willing to help when you need it. My position is also highly flexible, which is one of the greatest benefits.

      Cons

      Cisco can operate as a large company and sometimes this impedes the ability to get things processed quickly. In addition, the diversity at Cisco can be improved. Cisco is great about hiring women but can hire professional of different ethnicities to improve overall diversity. Overall, awesome place to work!

      Advice to Management

      Please continue to hire diverse candidate and improve company tools to ensure teams are most productive.

    10. "Business Development Manager"

      StarStarStarStarStar
      • Work/Life Balance
      • Culture & Values
      • Career Opportunities
      • Comp & Benefits
      • Senior Management
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Cisco Systems full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Technology leader; industry bellwether; sophisticated internal tools and systems for support; amazing team of people ready to cooperated and collaborate; great customer base.

      Cons

      Many acquisitions facilitating confusion.
      Constantly changing strategies and company goals.
      Sales tactics too focused on quotas, rather than customer requirements.
      Outsourcing too much to India-based partners who are good people and hard workers, but offer Cisco cheap labor using inexperienced partially qualified labor.
      Advancement based on personal network, rather than performance.
      Many (non-technical) employees (Program Managers, Marketing, Sales, etc.) are decent people with good intentions, but are unqualified and lack relevant experience with technology.

      Advice to Management

      Stay focused; foster innovation; listen to internal feedback; don't push new hardware on customers who are seeking solutions & services.

    Showing 11,330 of 12,440 reviews
    Reset Filters