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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?

we all striving for common goals

Diversity and Inclusion is important

Transparent collaborative interactive supportive growth

can do, inclusive and diverse

Encouraging and supportive people and good mentors

Cisco's culture cannot be beat. Great leaders in my experience and great colleagues. Cisco leads from the top down in terms of doing the right thing, and I see that reflected in Cisco daily.

Review from HR Dept

It’s very good company I love to work wi

Good working relationship between all team members including the management.

Review from Engineering Dept

Collaboration, share knowledege, opportunity to help with a cause (help disabled people, poor people, etc.).

Respect for family and personal needs outside of the work environment.

Family always comes first. Whether you have a planned family obligation or a last-minute surprise, the support to take care of your family first is there.

Review from Customer Success Dept

Inclusion and diversity are always high on the list of qualities we hire.

Good awareness of mental health and remote work flexibility

Review from HR Dept

Great, diverse group of people, with a continued commitment to inclusion.

Inclusive culture, fun events, development opportunities

Work from home. Great work/life balance

Leader is very open to my needs and concerns

Review from HR Dept

Trust supportive learning environment collaborative

Review from Business Development Dept

We have real and genuine focus on work life balance. We are provided countless opportunities to take time for ourselves, to volunteer and to care for others. We are the masters of our time and our success, and this is not a secret, it is part of the core values and we strive to keep it that way.

Empathy, have each other back

What needs to change to make the company culture better?

Accountability and performance management need to make an appearance. This has been an issue for years.

Review from Engineering Dept

Team building is non existent

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

clear career path, transparency to opportunities, improvement in internal processes that is devastating employee productivity

Review from Business Development Dept

Care about the people. Remove the promotions based on politics (the 'old boys club') and make it based more on capability and effectiveness.

Review from Sales Dept

Review Sentiment at Cisco

87
87%
13
13%

About Cisco's Environment

B+
73/100

Where This Score Ranks Cisco's Environment

TOP
20%

In the Top 20% of 1188 similar size companies on Comparably

TOP
40%

In the Top 40% of 738 companies in San Francisco

4th

4th place versus 5 competitors rated on Comparably

The environment at Cisco is considered positive by 85% of employees and regarded as having a “comfortably fast” work pace by 208 employees. Relative to its competitors, HP Inc., Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Juniper Networks, Cisco's environment score ranks in 4th place. This also puts them in the Top 20% of 1188 similar sized companies (10,000+ Employees) on Comparably and Top 40% of 738 companies in San Francisco.

Rate Environment the Highest

  • Ethnicity - Native American
    +18%
  • Ethnicity - African American/Black
    +9%
  • Department - Marketing
    +6%

Rate Environment the Lowest

  • Department - Customer Success
    -8%
  • Department - Product
    -6%
  • Department - IT
    -6%

How Cisco's Environment Score is Calculated

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Results from 522 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

AnswerPercent
7 or less14%
843%
1033%
125%
More than 125%
On average, how many hours do you work a day?
AnswerPercent
Extremely fast21%
Comfortably fast42%
Moderate26%
A bit slow5%
Bureaucratic6%
What's the work pace at your company?
AnswerPercent
Positive85%
Negative15%
Is your work environment positive or negative?
AnswerPercent
Yes35%
No65%
Does someone you work with closely, make you want to quit your job?
AnswerPercent
Yes59%
No41%
Do you have a close friend at work?
AnswerPercent
5% or Less40%
5-10%18%
10-25%27%
25-50%6%
50%+9%
What % of the time are you bored at work?
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