Cisco Employee Reviews
Out of 656 Cisco employee reviews, 83% were positive. The remaining 17% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Cisco improve their work culture. The HR team, with 97% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Cisco compared to all other departments at the company. The Business Development team offered the most constructive feedback, with 64% of that department's reviews constructive in nature.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
Posted 16 days ago
Posted 19 days ago
Lots of opportunity for growth but easy to get stretched too thin.
Review from Marketing Dept · Posted 20 days ago
Posted 23 days ago
Posted a month ago
What do you like best about the leadership team?
open culture and flexible policies
Posted 19 days ago
Seems like they geniungly care about the employees
Review from Marketing Dept · Posted 20 days ago
Open-door communication and super supportive of all employee opinion, feedback and contributions across the organization.
Review from Sales Dept · Posted 24 days ago
I like how they care about employees
As much transparency as they can, we cannot expect 100% but they do as much as they can when they can.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Industry knowledge is lacking completely in new hire
Posted 23 days ago
My manager needs. To be fair, doesnt pay fair or doesnt speak up for people fairly
Posted a month ago
Toxic executive in Customer Success CX. She needs to go she has destroyed the culture in services
Review from Customer Success Dept
They keep lay off people every 4 months and hire new people who leave after the canonical 1 or 2 years.
Provide transparency during time of change; truly listen to what employees on the ground are experiencing and observing with Cisco customers; address pay equity; be humble enough to admit when certain change and transformation isn’t effective or successful and be willing to change directio
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Affordable benefits, PTO and company holiday shutdown, achievable bonus
Review from Sales Dept · Posted 24 days ago
The relatively good salary + benefits
employee stock purch program & bonus
Performance bonus and the benefits
Aside from salary, their time off flexibility supersedes any company I've worked for in the past.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
better base pay, RSU and bonus will make feel happy
Posted 19 days ago
Better pay parity between old and new employees
Review from Marketing Dept · Posted 20 days ago
The pay and insurance dint match
Posted a month ago
Based on my skills I m getting under paid
Posted a month ago
A pay increase equal to current market conditions.
What are some of the best things about your team?
good talented team members are here
Posted 19 days ago
Very kind and smart people
Review from Marketing Dept · Posted 20 days ago
Breadth of technical knowledge and everyone is super friendly and helpful, especially with new hires.
Review from Sales Dept · Posted 24 days ago
Level of communication and teamwork
My team values my opinion
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
My team are doing the best they can given the tremendous administrative and unnecessary work imposed by COO. We all need to learn to push back on unproductive work
Review from Customer Success Dept
communication is terrible, learning is not a thing
Try to work together across the org instead of staying in your silos.
Review from Marketing Dept
Continuous learning and development to stay up to date is a necessity for tech workers. Align activities to company impact and translate associated metrics for prioritization
Inclusion. If you think outside of the box on my team, you're punished instead of rewarded. Large group-think problem in Cisco IT. Even if you're optimizing a process, people get annoyed because of slow/stagnant mentality. They want things to remain as they are and nothing to be disrupted.
Review from IT Dept
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
work from home is good
Posted 19 days ago
Most people are kind and considerate. There will always people who are terrible but those are few and far between
Review from Marketing Dept · Posted 20 days ago
As a remote employee Cisco goes above and beyond to make sure that culture remains consistent and inclusive.
Review from Sales Dept · Posted 24 days ago
Always looking out for each other when possible.
Cisco strives for inclusiveness and diversity 100 percent.
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Chance some of the top leadership specifically the COO
Review from Customer Success Dept
Transparency, listening to the customer and employees, get rid of execution on the ELT who manage by intimidation and fear, balance messaging between social issues and business strategy and how the company executes on its goals. There has been a tendency lately to focus on social issues too much
What you know isn't as important as who you know. Living in fear of constant LRs are driving away the best people.
Review from Marketing Dept
Eliminate silos. Build central data stores. Encourage collaboration. Discourage fire fighting and the associated hero. Prevention is better for the company.
1. Not being punished for wanting to move to a new role in Cisco. 2. Managers to challenge/grow rather than compete for spotlight with employees. 3. Compensation based on performance rather than based on length of time at company. 4. "Disruption" rewarded rather than punished
Review from IT Dept
What did you like most about the interview process?
depends on the role. It can go either very good or very bad. no middle ground. In case of it being very good, seamless process. Cannot negotiate salary, raise, promotions. Take it or leave it policy
Posted 4 days ago
good people and talented team
Posted 19 days ago
Getting to know the different people I would end up working with.
Review from Marketing Dept · Posted 20 days ago
It was structured and on-time, meaning, when asked for times to interview and I provided them, the recruiter immediately followed up with an interview schedule. I had all of my interviews (4 total) completed within 24 hours.
Review from Sales Dept · Posted 24 days ago
Getting to meet various members of the team.
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Keep it more similar to real world problems.
I started the process of applying for Cisco GVSE in November 2018 and was not hired until October 2019. I thought the interview process ok, but very long time until I was given formal offer letter even though it was relayed to me that I would be hired in April of 2019.
Review from Sales Dept
I have never interviewed with our company, I was part of an acquisition in the days before Cisco had really put a good process in place for acquisitions. We had a lot of problems moving into Cisco's infrastructure the first year.
Review from IT Dept
was okay but could be more geared towards acquiring talent
Review from IT Dept
Provide clear target date of decision and share the status frequently
Review from Business Development Dept
What makes you most happy at work?
flexible work policies and work from home option
Posted 19 days ago
The immediate group of people I work with. My manager. Getting to learn new things constantly.
Review from Marketing Dept · Posted 20 days ago
My team, culture and the amount of opportunities that await.
Review from Sales Dept · Posted 24 days ago
Being able to grow and leanr
Working from home and a paycheck
Review from Customer Success Dept
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Top heavy company which only cares about leadership team members. People try to work the least amount of time. Indians are a plague.
Folks are being put on action plans for no reason, even when they are hitting their numbers.
Review from Operations Dept
Long-term outlook for the company is dying because of its focus on acquisition instead of innovation.
Review from Marketing Dept
So many silos and artificial metrics it creates a lack of transparency and individual kingdoms
pay me more and give me some stocks
Review from Engineering Dept
What do you like best about your company?
The social media team is so fun!
Review from Operations Dept
Ability to take trainings and work from home
Review from IT Dept
the people are just really good at their jobs
Review from Engineering Dept
Flexibility, salary and benefits
trust and culture
Review from IT Dept
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Culture needs to adopt ownership accountability and mutual support
Two words: Pay. Parity. I am tired of seeing womxn being paid less than men in many segments of the company.
Review from Operations Dept
so many things, from recognition and compensation to overall work environment. Definitely my manager. I wish there were less repercussions for internal movement. Everyone "says" it's fine and you can and they'll support you. But it's a lie. I have had two movements sabotaged by management
Review from IT Dept
career options, less sales driven
Review from Customer Support Dept