Cisco has totally opposite reviews; mostly five stars in Glassdoor vs very negative reviews and comments here (or there) and those actually are the fact.
I often wonder if talent acquisition and hiring managers at other tech companies ever check here when they screen candidates with "Cisco" experience on their resume and they're aware of the company's reality..., i.e., how so many Cisco people have no work experience outside Cisco, with no motivation, not much work to do everyday, no special skill or no special knowledge, just spending years and years there just because the company still pay salary anyway.
At Cisco, HR, Talent Acquisition, Hiring Managers themselves are quite happy with what it is and boast it because they themselves were hired as new grads and they have no clue how inexperienced, incompetent, incapable they themselves and their staff are. And they often hear that "Cisco is the best workplace," "the most admired company" and they re-confirm that it is... It's just like JO ;-) And they just keep hiring new grads and inexperience young Yes-man type people who know almost nothing and never talk back. Are those people join Cisco and spend time years and years doing not much work, trying to hide themselves, staying quiet, being indifferent to one another while other people at other tech companies learn, gain a lot of new skills, techniques, methodologies, and knowledges. And the gap btw Cisco staff and ppl at other tech companies just increases more and more.
As I see the comments at Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, Amazon, Apple, Juniper, Palo Alto, Dell, Adobe, I don't see as many a negative comment as here.
Why is there such a big gap between reviews and reputations in the news and the market (people's image about Cisco in the world) and the fact/comments here.
And is there any time in future to come if the world would come to know what Cisco is really about...?