Cisco

I loved working at Cisco. Everyone was very supportive, and I had a great Engineering team I worked with. I hope one day I can work again.

At Cisco, you don't get recognize for your contribution but rather how well you kiss up to your boss. The work culture is very toxic. There's a lot of bullying, and if you report to HR, they won't protect you. I don't recommend working here.

I was a contract recruiter for Cisco (through Randstad). Excellent place to work; the recruiters are top notch, the teams easy to work with, the overall atmosphere very welcoming.

I was responsible for the companies within the Central America – Caribbean and North of South America that had Service and Support contracts been mostly the region largest Service Providers like BATELCO, CANTV, CODETEL among many others. Customer Satisfaction was key to renew the contracts on a yearly basis. Maintaining strong relationship with every person involved internally and with those from the TELCOS.

I started my career in Cisco as a support engineer and I have done almost everything in Information Technology space. Now I consider myself Cisco technologist.

I worked for a company that was acquired by Cisco. I was moved into a role that was contrary to my prior roles and the Role was not thoroughly defined As usual Cisco acquires companies for various reasons. Merge products into Cisco, Merge Talented employers into Cisco. To me it was not as much fun as it was at the company that was purchased by Cisco. It appeared Cisco did not have a plan on merging non Cisco people into there environment. My position within Cisco did not last long they offered an exit package which was below average and the layoffs were random without any reason provided. They said they have the right to layoff anyone they like and provide minimum exit package. It appears Cisco buys companies that maybe a threat to their business and usually do not incorporate the company and staff into their business model. They just destroy what they can and eliminate a competitor

It all depends on your leadership. Leadership will make or break you and your team. Salary and Benefits are great. Culture only really nurtures specific people with specific beliefs and if you're not into all of that this isn't the place for you.

Cisco has a diverse workforce, but they also frequently lay off 1000s just to boost executive bonuses.

Started as an ops analyst contractor doing backups, maintaining systems, reporting performance. Then managed ERP reporting, provided access and termination process. Created disaster recovery procedure and policy. Later, developed the Global Access Team and converted to a regular employee.

Not many companies provide you with an opportunity to make $1 million dollars in a given year. And in addition, representing one of the world's largest internet companies doing business in southeast Asia. I was the OEM Program Manager for all of Southeast for Cisco Systems Inc. Let's Talk /dam

Cisco's personnel policy, encompassing continuous ranking and firing of the "bottom 5%" results in a highly competitive and uncooperative work environment. In general, people attempt to climb to the top of the heap on the backs of their defeated co-workers. Incentive is provided to compete instead of cooperate, leading to painful, gridlocked decision making at all levels of the organization (due to the impetus to criticize the ideas of peers, then steal those ideas). Performance reviews are, in effect, replaced by regular layoffs. Continual paranoia is the pervading feeling and is necessary for survival in the Cisco corporate culture.

Responsible for managing the optical hardware by telcos and all federal agencies and the military. Gained DISA certifications twice on the software management of the hardware.

We were constantly challenged ourselves to improve our work environment and automate/improve our work tools/process. Worked with top 10% of silicon Valley engineers. We automated most of our work processes. Our team worked like a clock. We had global team of engineers. Managed large team of over 75 engineers. Supported majority of team to build both Technical skills and Leadership skills. Technical skills included team 100% got their CCNA, over 80% got their CCNP and several team members got CCIE. Supported team to build on their Leadership skills by learning to be able to voice their concerns in the meetings, be able to present powerfully and be happy.

It was a really good experience. Working in a collaborative environment. Over 147 countries 16 languages and 12 time zones. Emerging markets!

I worked with Cisco almost 5 yrs and they kept me on contract all the time. They moved me around and I was happy to locate to work. But the important thing I dislike is manager was unfair and they were favor of their people who worked long time for them. The Co-worker wasn’t corporate in team work, wasn’t share information about work while they needed my help to work. And when issues come up they’re always listen to their people and gave me a threatening to laid off. I’m very happy when I left Cisco and never came back. They called several times to rehire but thank you, I don’t want to work in unfair management.

GOOD WORKING ATMOSPHERE. Cooperative colleagues and goal oriented assignments. I worked there 2 years with good assignments and achieved my goals with challenging assignments.

Many of the student in my classes were working professionals that wanted to become Cisco CCNA engineers. Classes and labs were always full. Many of the students would return to the campus to let me and other instructors know how they apricated the information that we shared with them. Because of their training they were able to get certified and obtain new job.

overall good experience， nice coworkers，supporting management，as an engineer could not see the clear technology path