"It's nice to work."
What do you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"I like working with different types of companies as a consultant."
What don't you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"I never have the permanent position. It's always a contract job."
"The company had too many personnel changes."
What do you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"I like the possible skill opportunities."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Know your workers' capabilities."
What don't you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"There are too many upper management changes."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Try to keep key personnel."
What do you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"I like the great opportunities."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Great place to work."
What don't you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"They need to keep employees informed about the business impact."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"I would suggest upper-level management visibility."
What do you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"I like the people."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Good luck. Cisco's a good place to work, and as always, research your immediate management team."
What don't you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"Cisco ships a lot of American jobs overseas for greedy business reasons."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Cisco management is like ALL of American corporation management teams. They need to worry a little less about the here-and-now, and plan for the future corporate survival. At our current rate of shipping jobs overseas, this will be a country of CEOs and CFOs and the unemployed in the not-too-distant future. Just look at the trends. Also, Corporate America needs to take care of the American talent so that it'll be here when they need it the most. 'Nough said."
"It has grown into a political place to work. You have to play a lot more politics, more than in the past. You can't just do your job."
What do you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"Good opportunities were available."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Be ready to play major political games and be ready for high stress levels."
What don't you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"If you didn't play the game, you could not get anywhere."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Let people do the work they were hired to do. If they succeed, praise them and elevate them to new opportunities. If they fail, guide them to future success."
"Cisco Systems used to be a great place to work but is now sliding."
What do you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"If you are with a good team, there is excellent flexibility for work/life balance."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"It is a long interview process."
What don't you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"It is becoming an old world corporation with managers just fighting for territory and a fiefdom. The old world managers are slowly eliminating the management style of entrepreneurship and agile leadership that brought Cisco to its greatness."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Get rid of managers with high team turnover, and take employee reviews of managers seriously."
"A forward-thinking company."
What do you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"All the people I worked with were very competent and professional."
What don't you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"The intranet was difficult to navigate; therefore, it made it hard to find information about my job."
What do you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"I like results-based compensation."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Tell the truth."
What don't you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"I dislike growing company politics."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Return to the days of results-based compensation."
"It was a great place to work. After 2000, it got too big and it's not a right place for me."
What do you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"It was a fun and exciting time at Cisco. We were still small and every idea was treated as important to management. I loved it."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"I know I wouldn't want to work for Cisco again just because it is too big."
What don't you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"After 2000, the place got too big. Management was from big companies such as DEC, Sun, Apple, and Palm. It changed the Cisco culture and became a big corporate. Top executives have long been removed from their own people. Most of the people are there because of security more then fun."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Keep in touch with your people. Value their ideas and empower them on day-to-day decisions. Make them feel they are ones who can help build the company."
"Good work environment and challenging technologies to work with."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Involve engineers more in planning."
"Seven years at Cisco, one of the best companies to work for."
What do you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"There are lots of opportunities, both for professional and personal growth."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Be as straightforward as possible since the beginning. Make sure the position/role is true to expectation."
What don't you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"It's a big corporation with many smaller business units (each almost acting as independent companies, i.e., competing against each other, etc.)."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Cisco should consider US remote sites (satellite sites in CA, TX, VA, etc.) again, once it's done with foreign expansions (China, India)."
"Good to go."
What do you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"They are one of the best companies to work for because of the excellent work culture, good growth, and opportunities. They are pleasant and decent people. It's a golden opportunity for me to work with Cisco."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"It's a golden opportunity to work with Cisco."
What don't you like about working at Cisco Systems?
"Even if the candidate/consultant is good, there is no retention policy for him/her."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"All managers, business users, and Cisco employees are very professional, and it's my pleasure to work with them. Try to retain good candidates/consultants and if his/her assignment gets over and there is no opportunity within the same IDU, then managers can try for the next assignment in any IDUs within the Cisco system, instead of releasing good consultants/resources."
Cisco Systems has an overall rating of 4.1 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 996 Cisco Systems Review Ratings left anonymously by Cisco Systems employees, which is 5% higher than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 97% of employees would recommend working at Cisco Systems.
Cisco Systems employees earn $95,000 annually on average, or $46 per hour, which is 44% higher than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 388 Cisco Systems employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find Cisco Systems Salaries by Job Title.
97% of employees would recommend working at Cisco Systems with the overall rating of 4.1 out of 5. Employees also rated Cisco Systems 4.0 out of 5 for Company Culture, 4.0 for Rewards You Receive, 3.6 for Growth Opportunities and 4.2 for support you get.
According to our data, the highest paying job at Cisco Systems is a IT Executive at $324,000 annually. Browse Cisco Systems Salaries by Job Profile.
According to our data, the lowest paying job at Cisco Systems is a Director of Learning at $11,000 annually. Browse Cisco Systems Salaries by Job Profile.
According to reviews on CareerBliss, employees commonly rated the pros of working at Cisco Systems to be Company Culture, Growth Opportunities, People You Work With and Person You Work For, and no cons.
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