Does Cisco have a department dedicated to writing fake reviews? The reviews look rather suspicious
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Sorry I don't have to agree to characterize this site as full of moaners. (Some racist yes but not moaners). what I do feel strongly about is making it clear to outside talent that there are much better business leaders with higher ethics to work for out there. How can any leader feel good about their pay while running this constant lr business model is beyond me. You, as an employee are not a stakeholder to Cisco. I also want to make it clear that this company will let you go at any time even if you are a team player, high skilled, customer oriented and beating performance levels. The highest chances of staying employed at Cisco are to spend most of your day kissing up to your management. No one should be ok with that, unless there goal is to be lred get a package and move on.
Btw - why are you trolling a layoff site if you don't want to be informed about layoffs or listen and learn about real experiences at Cisco? Go live in your glass house and troll Glassdoor.
Alright love. Put your manbag down for a second.
You are brilliant, Cisco's loss...blah blah blah....I'm old....blah blah....nothing to do with me ...blah blah. All leaders are crap...blah blah...I can work anywhere I want blah blah...
You must agree with @O5SlHSp-4bdw though. This site is full of moaners.
4bdw - sorry I can't let your narrow mined comment go unaddressed. why is that after being lr-ed then I have had 3 firm job offers (accepted one) and declined to even interview for 5 others? Does that sound like somebody with a skills problem??? (I am Fairly senior level). My bu and group I led exceeded all its goals and I exceeded all of my assigned metrics. Get out of your bubble of narrow Cisco cheerleader thinking!!! Employees are not stakeholders at Cisco. I was lr-Ed for 2 reasons. My age and because I did not spend half my day cowtowing to my management and instead focused on achieving results and leading a team. You need to realize the people let go this round were not let go due to performance or skill set. They were let go because of failures of very senior leadership. So yes people have a right to moan when they are paying for the sins of leaders while those same leaders are rewarded. It is more than just business......it is a lack of ethics.
Ha ha. This site has nothing to do with layoffs. It's for Cisco employees to have a moan about how crap cisco is whilst being too inadequate as people to actually get a job elsewhere. I suspect because deep down they know no one wants to employ a whinging inadequate. You know the sort of people. People you never EVER ask "how are you" cos you'll have the life drained out of you like you've played tonsil hockey with a dementor.
It's fun to read though. It always cheers me up but then I'm paid well with good work life balance and excellent benefits. Oh and I work for Cisco.
@O5SlHSp-4iry - if GD is fake, what do you think about this site, layoffs dot com?
Glassdoor reviews are a joke. It's very obvious that HR is trying to make Cisco seem 'great' on that site. Lots of companies' HR teams do the same thing. As a GD consumer, you need to do your due diligence and read as many reviews as you can. You also need to dig deeper and try to uncover the team situation that relates to your role. Remember, one team may reek and another may be gold. So if you make your decision about a company based on GD reviews, you may be shooting yourself in the foot if all you focus on are the pro or con reviews. Just like this site (layoffs), you will learn about a lot of good and a lot of bad.
PS. In media, good press is bought: People Magazine's annual Most Beautiful People awards are fee-based. Same goes with VF when they feature an up and coming actor. It's called pay to play.
You do realize that there are people who's purpose is to write reviews on glassdoor?
HR are asking all of management to write a positive review. Due to a fair bit of bad press around job security, Cisco is struggling to recruit now. Bad reviews on GlassDoor don't help either so they are trying to drown them out with fake ones.
Cisco needs to post more YouTube videos of millennials dancing in costumes and playing games over in Bldg 11 in RTP. I will NEVER be able to listen to the song "Can't Stop the Feeling" again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFmA3SnFguo
These are the people who don't get impacted by LR's. Those of us busy doing work get impacted. But, hey, look, Cisco is a FUN place to work.
HR are asking all of management to write a positive review. Due to a fair bit of bad press around job security, Cisco is struggling to recruit now. Bad reviews on GlassDoor don't help either so they are trying to drown them out with fake ones.
one word sheila "dikshit"
It's interesting how Cisco can respond to positive or negative reviews, but the reviewer can't respond back.
I had posted a half-good/half-bad review. I posted the numbers that was provided to me as required by law since I was over 40 and showed how heavily weighted it was towards those over 40. Cisco responded calling me a liar and that there was no age discrimination.
But, if you post a glowing review, then their response is to thank you for your "honest" review.
I have little-to-no faith in the integrity of the posts on the glass door site. Especially for company's where I see employer responses.
If I see something that concerns me, I'll pay close attention to it during the interview, or out-right ask about it. I did that at one potential employer, and while the hiring manger expressed strong interest in me, the HR flunky gave me the thumbs-down because I asked about an issue and disagreed with the HR's rep's response.
@O5SlHSp-xxu and your mom was one of those big fat roaches.
After the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan, many reports indicated that only c---roaches were able to survive the nuclear fallout.
Does Cisco have a department dedicated to writing fake reviews? The reviews look rather suspicious
I had to laugh out loud at the email I got from Glass door about the most recent Cisco review. It had a bunch of pro's and said "There are no con's working at Cisco.".
Really? There's nothing wrong?!? They need to pull their head out from between the cheeks it's between.
Yes, the work-from-home policy and work/life balance is incredible. I miss that. I can't say the pay was great, but it wasn't bad. The benefits, on the other hand, were the best I've had and the biggest part of why I stayed. My management was good, but other teams were not so lucky.
But the annual mass reduction in staffing is certainly a con. What happened to doing a good job and having job stability in return? It's gotten such that the only difference between red & blue badges are the benefits. That and the cost to Cisco to cut employees.
For me, the worst thing about Cisco is the way the impacted employees are selected. When you're told your job is redundant, it shouldn't be back-filled with a red badge. Cheaper, less hardworking employees shouldn't be kept in favor of hardworking older employees who make more money. In the short term, it saves money to have that cheaper worker, but they don't have the corporate knowledge / history to know how things were set up, what purpose a box served and how, and when it's time to be refreshed, why something suddenly stopped working. They have to take time to figure it out, but that older worker would have known what to make sure was backed up and migrated to the new box.
I'll be honest with you. I'm with the first comment. Sure there are LR but what company doesn't. I'm pretty happy. It's not like we are forced to stat here although anyone reading a lot of these comments would think you are stuck at Cisco till they decide to get shot of you.
You're 100% right, I wasn't forced to stay at Cisco. I actually liked my job & my peers. Since our team was rarely impacted by workforce reductions, limited restructuring, etc, I felt pretty safe and felt sorry for those who were impacted and wished them the best. It was sad watching talented people get axed while slackers were preserved.
I stayed because I had a home, a child in school, and few options that paid as well without requiring me to move and cause my child to leave friends behind and start over. Plus, I didn't want to have to prove myself at a new company all over again. Now, that decision has been made for me.
Obviously you will hate what I have to say but I'm paid competitively, I have a great work / life balance, the company benefits are brilliant. I have good managers, I'm late 40s and don't feel my age is a threat to my career and I enjoy what I do. I'm treated with respect by my peers.
I could have said the same thing a year ago. Then, one week before my 10th anniv and 1 year short of my 50th birthday, I found out I wasn't needed. Funny how my position got filled with a contractor within 45 days. If I wasn't needed, why is a contractor doing my job? Oh, wait, I'm almost 50 and I'm paid more than the median for my pay grade. That's it.
Sure there are Layoffs, and to a certain degree, yes, that's business.
BUT the frequency and - having just been throuh the experience again in my site - MANNER in which they are carried out are in my opinion not just business.
The frequency smells of poor management vision. It's one thing to have quarterly results driving the business - Cisco is publicly quoted after all - but having that drive the headcount on such a regular basis is a cruel joke,
The manner in which it is done, where someone "names the name", the wait for the axe, then "the cut" is bad enough. Seeing YET AGAIN someone whose role is in fact necessary get the chop, and a re-jig to fill the gap left behind, tells me the "role no longer necessary" lie is still just that.
Why am I still here? They pay me well enough to put up with it, but not enough to be happy about it; job hunt is always ongoing.
Glassdoor is a joke. There is really no verification done on the self-selected demographic/status fields. Competitors can just as easily post negative reviews as any employee.
First Commenter- Have you seen how Cisco mistreats their employees? The constant re-orgs & layoffs is absolutely disgusting. Managers abusing employees until they quit. These are not isolated events it's just the culture of the company now. Without performance reviews, this horrible behavior is completely undocumented.
Either brownnose your way into the 'Good ol Boys' club, or watch your job be made redundant.
I'll be honest with you. I'm with the first comment. Sure there are LR but what company doesn't. I'm pretty happy. It's not like we are forced to stat here although anyone reading a lot of these comments would think you are stuck at Cisco till they decide to get shot of you.
In my experience there are certainly some interesting trends on Glassdoor whereby any negative review is almost immediately negated by a dozen positive reviews which typically lack detail and are very similar. I believed it was my own paranoia until I spotted this thread, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a concealed effort to keep up a good facade to attract people back to the company. It would be a pretty repulsive attempt to trick people into boarding a sinking skip, but then again, maybe the majority of people are actually "delighted" with Cisco, the ELT and the direction this organisation is heading. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Probably HR with their unwritten Performance Objectives
1) Keep glassdoor rating above 3 Bonus = 1x salary
2) Restructure 1000 people Bonus = 1x salary /1000 people
3) Keep glassdoor rating above 3 AND Restructure 5000 people Bonus. = SVP
Meanwhile...
http://m.economictimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/cisco-india-president-dinesh-malkani-quits/articleshow/59425319.cms
Agreed with first person to reply. We get to work on cool technology and there are a lot of smart people. One of the only annoying things is the attrition rate where I am. People learn the cool new technology and then move on. But for the most part that seems to be those that started Cisco right out of college. I probably would have a different opinion if there were tons of LRs around me too.
Maybe if your job can be done by an inexperienced 8th grader its time to move on anyway.
Wait until your boss throws you under the bus to protect him/herself from LR then informs you that your role is being replaced by an inexperienced 8th grader.
Obviously you will hate what I have to say but I'm paid competitively, I have a great work / life balance, the company benefits are brilliant. I have good managers, I'm late 40s and don't feel my age is a threat to my career and I enjoy what I do. I'm treated with respect by my peers.
All said and done I could name lots of companies that are far worse than Cisco. I'm really not surprised Glassdoor and Best Place to Work rate Cisco highly.
I realize this answer to your post will get ridiculed but really what do people want from a job? Job security is a thing of the past with every company. We should make the best of what we have rather than waste all our energies moaning.
Let the ridicule and general draining begin....