Cisco Company Reviews and Ratings
Business Operations Analyst
San Jose, CA - February 4, 2025
I enjoyed my time at Cisco and would go back. I was let go because 3 organization were combining so there was some duplication.
Pros and Cons
Work Life balance. Companies understand the people have responsibilities outside of work
Lrg Company Jobs cuts do come and they do not seem to understand what the person did prior to cuts.
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QA - Enterprise Mobility
March 24, 2024
I worked for a managed service vendor and for about 4 out of 5 years it was great. I deployed over 130K devices on the most diverse device landscape I have ever seen.
Pros and Cons
Travel, access to technology, smart people
Managed service vendors are constantly squeezed by Cisco to provide service cost reductions
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Manager
March 11, 2024
Cisco is like a giant with one foot in India and the other in the US. It is a high energy environment. You may end up working odd hours in order to communicate with colleagues on the other side of the world. There are systems to track every aspect of project development. I mostly found it a great company to work for.
Pros and Cons
Nice office space, great benefits, good on-boarding process.
You may find yourself working at odd hours.
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Technical Lead
Milpitas, CA - January 26, 2024
Bad management. Boss managed by intimidation. If you openly kiss up to your manager, you can openly show up late, don't do work, and still get paid. If you gather all the evidence and report the problem to HR, your boss will retaliate against you. HR will act like they care, but choose not to do anything about it. People from the same country protect one another. There are a lot of manipulation and dishonesty in the work place. It's a toxic work environment. I've heard about this from past employees before joining Cisco. It's all true what they said. I stayed because of the money.
Pros and Cons
Very good salary and benefits
Toxic work environment
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Recruiter
Remote - July 27, 2023
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.
Pros and Cons
Family orient company flexible family hours reliable stable.
Contract workers let go quickly but I don't blame them it just happens.
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Net Technical Lead
Milpitas, CA - June 22, 2023
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.
Pros and Cons
Pay and bonus
Toxic work culture
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Sr Recruiter (contract)
May 17, 2023
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.
Pros and Cons
excellent reputation, great growth opportunities
salaries could be higher; projected job hires for upcoming fiscal year could be more defined.
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Service and Support Manager
May 10, 2023
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.
Pros and Cons
Best working environment, great team I’d had during my professional career.
Many times the travelers through the region were excessive.
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Distinguished Engineer
San Jose, CA - April 25, 2023
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.
Pros and Cons
culture - bottom up consensus based decision making
Not aware of any cons
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Business Development Account Manager
Atlanta, GA - February 21, 2023
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
Pros and Cons
I found no Pros, possibly reasonable health insurance but little else was improved
To many cons to label
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Senior Security Consultant
Englewood, CO - February 13, 2023
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.
Pros and Cons
Stocks, Bonuses, Time off
Very Poor Leadership, Very Poor Backend/Business Unit Support
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IT Business Analyst
Lawrenceville, GA - October 18, 2022
Cisco has a diverse workforce, but they also frequently lay off 1000s just to boost executive bonuses.
Pros and Cons
cisco has a decent reputation, somehow
frequent layoffs, huge bureaucracy
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Operations Analyst
San Jose, CA - March 2, 2022
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.
Pros and Cons
Free drinks, exercise, good pay, good food, stock options
Grew too fast
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Sr. Program Manager
San Jose, CA - January 17, 2022
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
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Pros and Cons
Cisco Systems Inc.
Cisco Systems Inc.
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Software Engineering Technical Leader II
Milpitas, CA - January 13, 2022
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.
Pros and Cons
Good compensation and benefits, good perks at work (free coffee and snacks).
Toxic work environment, probably due to the "bottom 5%" policy.
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Product Manager and Technical Marketing Manager
San Jose, CA - November 6, 2021
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.
Pros and Cons
Great company ethics and integrity.
None, loved the company, retired from it!
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Sr Engineering Manager
San Jose, CA - July 17, 2021
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.
Pros and Cons
The company supported team to expand on their technical skills and well rewarded financially.
We enjoyed our job to the point that we lost track of time to balance work and family.
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Program Manager
Doral, FL - July 7, 2021
It was a really good experience.
Working in a collaborative environment.
Over 147 countries 16 languages and 12 time zones. Emerging markets!
Pros and Cons
International exposure, friendly environment
Life work balance
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EE technician
May 27, 2021
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.
Pros and Cons
Flexible time
Unfair management
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Component Engineer
San Jose, CA - April 28, 2021
GOOD WORKING ATMOSPHERE. Cooperative colleagues and goal oriented assignments. I worked there 2 years with good assignments and achieved my goals with challenging assignments.
Pros and Cons
Good benefits and fair employment practices
strict supervision
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North Lake College Instructor
Irving, TX - April 16, 2021
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.
Pros and Cons
As you share through teaching you instill your knowledge, as the students provide feedback
Working 12 to 14 hour days can ware on you as the semester progresses .
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Software Automation Engineer
Durham, NC - March 26, 2021
overall good experience, nice coworkers,supporting management,as an engineer could not see the clear technology path
Pros and Cons
effective marketing and customer support
lack of long term strategic planning of technology
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