Cisco Systems India Reviews

I worked at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good work culture and good team members

Cons – Being a big company, opportunities to grow and learn are not much.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Cisco Systems India full-time

Pros – - good developer community to learn
- enough opportunities to grow

Cons – - its upto the individual to chart his/her growth story
- politics of hierarchy like many other big companies

Advice to Senior Management – employee goals need to be tracked better to ensure continuous growth, this includes correct feedback at regular intervals and not just at the end of the appraisal cycles

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Cisco Systems India

Pros – Working at Cisco is a great experience in all aspects. Freedom to the employees, great workplace, flexibility in timings and a lot of choices for career

Cons – There are some teams where work is a lot routine

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – 1. Flexibility to work from home. 2. Result oriented. 3. Wide exposure. 4. Allows to prove oneself in other fields too.

Cons – Need to work at fast pace

Advice to Senior Management – N/A

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great culture. World leader, good learning opportunities, wonderful peers.
In terms of taking care of the employees, Cisco does a lot more than other employers

Cons – Size of the organization is increasing in India, which means, most of the times, the great culture and learning opportunities are negated by getting stuck in the wrong team, doing worthless work. Internal transfers are not as easy as it is talked of, still better than other employers. Yet, having a manager who looks at his own interests will ensure you dont move around easily.

Advice to Senior Management – Process to be established for people to move around the teams. Perhaps mandatory examinations and creating a pool for talent for movement purpose would be exciting

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good work and life balance.
Flexible timings and Work From Home options.
Very caring and cooperative management.
Predictable bonus.

Cons – Not many options for career growth.
Need to negotiate more before joining the company. Once if u r in , career and packages grows very slower.
Need to be proactive to select a competitive work. Management allows u to work on an exciting project if you insist for it.
Most of employees need to follow up actively to get to know any new works are coming.
No profit sharing and no stock options.

Advice to Senior Management – Frequent management changes are not very encouraging.
Share current and future project plans in time.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Cisco Systems India

Pros – good worklife balance
wide varieties in career options
chance to work on latest technologies

Cons – Have to bear the maintenance jobs...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Cisco Systems India

Pros – Flexibility, Open culture, Innovation centric.
I love the office premises @Bangalore

Cons – Along with innovation every engineer and engineering Manager should focus on quality and try to reduce cost of poor quality

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good place to work. No dearth of good work. They always plan ahead and try to be ahead of the crowd in technology, product and quality etc.

Cons – It depends mainly on the employee on what or which way they want to steer their career. Employee get lots of opportunity for the career advancement and they have to catch and hold on to it.

Advice to Senior Management – Very alert and they make things happen quickly.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Cisco Systems India full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Company keeps evolving with products-even though it is big, promising future
Flexible work timings and ownership model of work
Working on new products every visualized by others
Since Cisco is leaders as an employee, you will get respect from other software companies, it becomes somewhat easy to find another job

Cons – Constant senior executive changes, products evolution is good but not constant leadership change.
Though company is having money in bank not a recession employee work experience safe guarder, provides job security threats
Late night meetings & work

Advice to Senior Management – Do not change executive leaders too often

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company