Great Pay but Stay Away (that is, if you want to grow)
Great Pay but Stay Away (that is, if you want to grow)
Big bucks in the bank insulate this company from a lot of mistakes. Cisco has great benefits, a nine-to-five culture, very good pay, excellent market share, and nice buildings. Employees are generally empowered to do stuff, unless it's innovative (see below).
Absolutely no career growth (unless you want to move to India).
No ability to cross over business units or get into new technologies; it's a very static environment.
Cisco generally hates people who innovate because that activity is inherently risky. If Cisco wants innovation, it will go out and buy it.
Mike Volpe once said that Cisco didn't need to do R&D because the whole of Silicon Valley was its R&D lab.
Think Employee Development! Try a little internal R&D once in a while! Promote people on merits other than PowerPoint skills.
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ASIC Engineer
The interview was good, and the questions covered hardware, DFT, and physical design. There were two rounds, and they informed me after one month of the interview process.
AI Engineer
I passed the initial screening interview and earned the opportunity for the big onsite interview, a series of three interviews. I prepared extensively. During each interview, I was assessed by two different individuals. What I noticed was that in eac
Software Engineer
I contacted the recruiter, then I received a HackerRank challenge. After I cleared it, I got an onsite call. I had to go through six rounds of onsite interviews. That was not tough; all common questions were asked. The interview experience was good.
ASIC Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesJune 6, 2023The interview was good, and the questions covered hardware, DFT, and physical design. There were two rounds, and they informed me after one month of the interview process.
AI Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesSeptember 1, 2023I passed the initial screening interview and earned the opportunity for the big onsite interview, a series of three interviews. I prepared extensively. During each interview, I was assessed by two different individuals. What I noticed was that in eac
Software Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesAugust 29, 2018I contacted the recruiter, then I received a HackerRank challenge. After I cleared it, I got an onsite call. I had to go through six rounds of onsite interviews. That was not tough; all common questions were asked. The interview experience was good.
