Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd.

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About The Organization

Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd is recognized among India's Best Companies to Work For 2019 and among India's Best Workplaces for Women 2019 (Top 75). Every year, Great Place to Work® identifies India's 100 Best Companies to Work For (with employee strength more than 500) through an objective and rigourous workplace culture assessment process. As a part of our annual research in India, this year a total of 747 organizations were evaluated and from them, we identified India’s 75 Best Workplaces for Women 2019. Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. 85 percent of Internet traffic travel across Cisco's systems and it supports, manages and operates business systems for various and major third parties.

Company Size

10578 Employees

Industry

Information Technology

Why Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd. is a Great Place to Work?

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Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd has successfully created a Great Place to Work FOR ALL their employees as they have excelled on the 5 dimensions that are a hallmark of a High-Trust, High-Performance Culture™ – Credibility, Respect, Fairness, Pride and Camaraderie. In a rigorous assessment process conducted by the Great Place to Work® Institute, Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd met the minimum criteria on the Trust Index© Employee Survey, on the consistency of experience across all demographics and on the Culture Audit© People Practices Framework, to clear the first level i.e. getting Great Place to Work-Certified™.

Great Place to Work® is considered the ‘Gold Standard’ in workplace culture assessment and recognition.

As a certified organization, Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd became eligible to be considered among 'India's Best Companies to Work For 2019' – a list that features the 'Best of the Best’. The process of identifying India's Best Companies to Work For is based purely on the assessment findings and does not involve any jury or opinion based criteria.

Culture Snapshot
Employees at Cisco takes pride in its leaders, the brand, the products and their contribution to society. They are inspired by the culture and its elements like the ‘People Deal’ employee value proposition, WeAreCisco, and the inclusion of a diverse workforce. They get the flexibility and freedom at work. They can learn new technologies, explore new ideas, and execute them with authority. They are provided with the required resources and opportunities. They can explore new technologies, platforms, ideas to grow personally and professionally.

This page highlights more about the work culture of the organization, selected best people practices, the vision of the leadership and glimpses of employee life.

Read through to find out what makes Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd a Great Workplace.

Recognitions awarded by Great Place to Work^®

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Great Place to Work-Certified™ from April 2019 - March 2020.

India's Best Companies to Work For 2019

Among India's 75 Best Workplaces for Women 2019

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To strengthen their approach to find the right talent for the right job and to give it a flavor of technology, they have introduced Belong, a machine learning powered search to surface the most relevant candidates and predict their openness to Cisco opportunities. It also enables them to automate personalize candidate engagement for great candidate experience

This is my 2nd inning at Cisco. It is like a 2nd home to me which I missed when I left it last time. It is difficult to describe it in words but overall culture is employee friendly.

Employee Testimonial

People are highly cared for- personally and professionally.

Employee Testimonial

Leaders Speak

V C Gopalratnam

Sr. Vice President, Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd.

1. What is your personal approach to making a Great Workplace?
Every company wants to create a workplace that’s interesting, engaging, and challenging. Personally, for me, the way to make it happen is to create a workplace which is high on emotional intelligence, a place that truly cares for its employees, communicates with transparency, where employees can do their job with confidence and where employees also have fun

2. What are the top 2 benefits you see of creating a Great Workplace?
A great workplace increases employee engagement and overall mental & physical health and wellbeing. In addition to this, positive work-cultures/places have a direct impact on company productivity.

3. What are your top people priorities?
a. Overall Employee Experience at Cisco
b. Driving Conscious Culture
c. Building critical skills for our future together

4. How has your association with Great Place to Work® helped your business and strategic goals?
Every year, we learn new things thought this association which, in turn, is helping us transform ourselves into an extraordinary workplace, where every employee has the flexibility and the opportunity to succeed in both their personal and professional lives.

Anupam Pillai

HR Head, India, Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd.

1. What can your present and potential employees be sure of from a work culture perspective in the organization?
Cisco is an organization with a heart. At Cisco, our focus is on building an empowering workplace with a conscious culture to be inclusive and innovative. Our policies enable employees to flourish in a lean organization with a winning attitude. A thriving people deal defines the culture that Cisco wants and needs to lead in our industry for big growth. We are strong believers in giving back to our community and caring for each other. And we do all of this… while having a lot of fun!

2. What, according to you, is a people challenge your industry is facing?
The biggest challenge today is talent activation. In our fast-paced growth mindset, aligning the strengths of our top talent to solving the challenges faced by companies is becoming a very relevant ask. Cisco is investing heavily in the future of work and is keen to provide our biggest asset, our people, with work that they are best suited to do while encouraging them to aim for excellence and further learning.
The development of the necessary skills and capabilities to sell, support, develop and help customers adopt technological innovation is critical to remain competitive and relevant. This includes our own relevance as a business.

3. How are you ensuring a consistent workplace experience FOR ALL your employees, irrespective of their role, age, gender, tenure etc. in the organization?
Cisco simply wants all employees to bring their true authentic selves to work every day. It is in our fibre to be inclusive in everything we do. Our various Employee Resource Organizations and networks provide like-minded employees to come together and function for the betterment of these demographics of employees

4. How has your association with Great Place to Work® helped your business and strategic goals?
Our people deal is built on the pillars of connect everything, innovate everywhere and benefit everyone. This approach to strategy and business has led Cisco to transform and has helped unleash the potential of each and every employee. We are looking for this association to bolster our efforts in employee engagement, speak to our potential employees about the fantastic culture we embody and allow to share and learn from other companies on unique practices to constantly get better.