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Cisco Systems

Overall Rating: 
2.85
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Recent Tells/Reviews

market leader for the last decade

The best thing I regarded about the company is its constant presence in the market as the market leader for the last decade or so as far as the router manufacturing is concerned. Being a part of market leader is such an exciting experience, I am speechless to narrate. The emotions become multiple folds, when you realized that the company is delivering its balance sheet benefits to its employees as well. Apart from the recent slum of the economy, that might have hurt employments badly, CISCO has always responded positively when there's a matter of corporate and social responsibility and I suppose according to their philosophy employees are the pivotal point of the company's success.
As Employee
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Cisco going downhill

John Chambers keeps calling Cisco a family. He's either a liar or is profoundly out of touch with what's really going on at the company (I think it's the latter). There are so many VPs and directors running around interfering with people doing work that it gets more and more inefficient here. But that doesn't matter, the solution to everything is to lay-off domestic employees and hire more in China and India.

Supposedly Cisco does "promote from within" to foster employee growth. That's a joke, upper management routinely goes around this so they can hire their friends who have been laid off from other companies.

It's sad, but when the economy finally starts to turn around for real there are going to be a LOT of talented Cisco employees leaving the company. In their typical short sighted view of things upper management will probably think that's good because of the cost savings. This company's greatest days are long behind, if there's not a major change from the top down.
As Employee
By Anonymous

Recent Layoff Tells/Reviews

Good people being let go

Internal mangement is not good enough at Cisco. Management appears to not know how to organize their groups and manage employees. There have been many unfair layoffs for the last 2 years but management didn't even frown at it. It makes no difference to people in high rank whether god people stay or let go, they look for their own concerns and benefits. The company is losing ground as one of the top companies in US.
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Recent Jobs at Cisco

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Consulting Solutions Dir at Cisco-il - Chicago, IL Last seen 1 month ago architecting and delivering service solutions around Cisco's technologies for Cisco's most strategic customers. ... to help drive sustainable service solutions with Cisco technologies. To develop a successful model, the...more
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Cisco Pre Sales Engineer (Any Cisco Cert) at Cisco Var - New York, NY Last seen 3 weeks ago to advance you career with a top Cisco Partner This is your chance. One of Ciscos top partners is seeking a PRE ... ccnp, ccda, ccdp, ccvp, ccie). Need to have experience in Cisco Technologies. Duties and responsibilities include:...more
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