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

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4.1
Average Rating
(based on 996 Cisco Systems Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
4.0
Growth Opportunities
3.6
People You Work With
4.4
Person You Work For
4.3
Rewards You Receive
4.0
Support You Get
4.2
Way You Work
4.2
Work Setting
4.1
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"I have been working for Cisco Systems as a Software Engineer since July 2018. My team was a start-up acquired by Cisco and provided me the environment I was looking for. With a steep learning curve, Cisco has helped me grow my skills further."
Posted 4 years ago in San Jose, CA

Working at Cisco Systems in San Jose, CA: 448 Employee Reviews

Data Analyst

"I enjoyed working with Cisco System in the great and encouraging work environment."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Cisco Systems Employee

"I have been working for Cisco Systems, Bangalore, India for past six years."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Cisco Systems Employee

"Cisco treats software engineers like a commodity. They don't really care about your career or future. The ethnicity mix is not good. Some groups only seem to want people of the same ethnicity. Upper management has very little heart."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Cisco Systems Employee

"No challenging tasks given to undergraduate interns."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Cisco Systems Employee

"It's a good place to work at. Bureaucracy can be annoying and expectations can be very shockingly unreal - at least that is the case where I am at."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
CTO

"Worked with Cisco system IPICS group, currently the major contributor for the project."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Cisco Systems Employee

"I've worked for Cisco since 2010. It's a great company to work for which emphasizes work-life balance."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Technical Program Manager

"Cisco has provided excellent opportunities to develop and deploy products and services directly with customers and leaders requiring enterprise class quality for collaboration and network solutions providing customer oriented pre-sales needs and requirements thru delivery and expansion to scale first in class solutions."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Program Manager

"Would recommend Cisco to others."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Intern

"I am currently employed at Cisco Systems, as part of an international internship program that hires talent across the world. The whole experience has been great so far, however, I am looking for a full time position in the technology industry, after the end of my internship."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Senior Software Engineer

"It is good place to work. There is lot of scope to learn new technologies."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Software Development Engineer

"It's an amazing place to work. I worked with Cisco for around 3 years and loved every bit of my work."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Program Manager

"Still a bellwether in the tech sector, but fortunes have waned recently as emerging economies have slowed down that had fueled much of the revenue growth in recent years as Europe and US stagnated."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Technical Lead

"Cisco Systems Inc has extremely vast infrastructure, giving ample bandwidth to carry-out extensive set of testing your design decisions and implementations. However, on the flip side, due to extreme magnitude of infrastructure, upgrading the system with latest technologies becomes a tough challenge, with the teams more concerned to keep the environment safe and stable."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Software Engineer
Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5

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