Cisco Systems Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Strong leadership, amazing work/life balance, work hard/play hard atmosphere

Cons

Not much room for growth with certain departments due to very little turnover.

Pros

Benefits, Salary, and good work life balance

Cons

annual layoffs can be stressful

Pros

* Depending on the project, but lately Cisco has been working on latest technology stack * Good work life balance * Lot of perks other than salary

Cons

* Less stock options as compared to other top companies in bay area * Too much politics especially for growth

Advice to Management

Need to pay more to retain good talent

Pros

Pros We have an exceptional team of employees who work hard to do the right thing for our clients and the firm every day. Great culture and good people Training and mobility Friendly employee engagement with clients Good Culture. Very Professional and organized "There is so much flexibility with work/life balance that it makes it easy to come into work in the morning" Now for an... organisation running the show ,it is inevitable to have a backend and a frontend. This organisation's backend is sound proof and knows how to manage their downtime. Open organization flexible timings. Company takes your contributions seriously

Cons

Amazing benefits program, casual office, free snacks, tons of events and happy hours. Great existing product that works really well, and some of the best people you'll ever work with. Cons Organisation has become large and complicated No system in place in most of the countries like India. lot of Manual intervention There are growing pains as the company continues to evolve You don't wanna learn ,... not for you.

Pros

Flexible work life balance, great culture

Cons

Reorganization can be more frequent than desired due to company going through a transition from hardware focused to software and recurring revenue

Pros

Flexibly , strong remote work culture, great work life balance, good diversity (gender and racial), variability in teams and projects you can choose to work on, solid benefits and perks

Cons

new in data science, frequent re-orgs, no free food every day of the week

Advice to Management

at least in the bay area offices provide more food options to add efficiency and compete with other big companies

Pros

I love my job and my team! The culture is supportive and work-life balance is a high priority.

Cons

as far as I know none.

Pros

Flexible work culture, good work-life balance, interesting projects. It can be great if you have a manager who supports and goes out of their way for you.

Cons

Top heavy company with limited talent cultivation. The way up is by leaving and being re-hired - says a lot about their self-assessment that they value people outside their company vs inside. There is no documentation of success, talent reviews, etc so when re-orgs happen, you have zero track record and no say in what happens to you role-wise. You are a new hire when you get re-orged with the same timeline reset... before your career can progress. Unless you are a manager, you can go 5+ years without even a COLA. Heavily political environment where sponsorship is required, so there is a strong need to play the game and cultivate strong relationships from the get go.

Advice to Management

Do a better job of documenting track record, talent, and plans. Managers are people, with bias, and they leave. Teams get left in the dust.