Working at Cisco Systems in San Jose, CA: 448 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in San Jose, CA Area

"Great company with many benefits. Values employees."

"Good place to work, good organization."

"Cisco San Jose, CA; Cisco ME; Cisco Los Angeles, CA"

"I worked for Cisco Systems and demonstrated consistent career progression in finance over my 8+ year career. The company can be quite large but this provides the ability to do multiple rotations and gather invaluable experience across multiple facets of finance which adds to your value as a financial professional. This prepares a Cisco finance professional for many opportunities outside the company later in their career."

"I worked for Cisco Systems for almost 2 years and I find the experience very rewarding. I've learned a lot."

"I've worked at Cisco since 1998, have seen the ups and downs. Overall its a great company to work for. Still like most of the big companies, there are office politics you will need to deal with."

"Good company."

"This is a San Jose company, which is not bad."

"It's a great company to work for."

"Good company to work for until their financial situation changed for the worse."

"Great company to work for. Employees are great people, salary is better than average, but it has become too big and requires new blood. Seems to be struggling to reinvent itself."

"I have been working in Cisco since one and a half years. Every aspect of the company is good except the fact that it lays off very frequently and that too in huge amounts."

"The overall culture of companies has changed in the last few years, Frequent layoffs, fewer growth opportunities for technical positions. Cost cutting by outsourcing jobs and your productivity is compared on cost-basis to jobs that are outsourced. You will be living on your own silos of technical skill initially acquired; you won't learn much of other associated technologies."

"A place for dreams to die. Run."