Too many vendors
Too many vendors
It is a great company. It has some really good core products. There is less competition. It's a semi-monopoly. It has deep pockets.
Corruption. Too much money wasted. Focus on acquisition over internally building. Acquired talent leaves after vesting. The majority of acquired products are shut down in a few years.
Respect talent. Stop the corruption.
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Director of Engineering
We need to meet with various department heads to discuss qualifications. Each department head had their list of questions that pertained to their areas and how well you were qualified. There was also a desire to understand if you are a self-starter
TAC Engineer
Applied for this position online and was contacted the next day by a recruiter at Cisco. Started with a 10-minute prescreen phone interview (nothing technical). This included questions like "Why do you want to work for Cisco?" and some information a
Software Engineer
The recruiter set up a phone screen. This was an hour long, and the interviewer asked me about OS, Data Structures, OOPS, and gave me a problem to solve. Then, there was an onsite round, which consisted of more DS and algorithm problems, varying fro
Director of Engineering
San Jose, California, United StatesFebruary 1, 2014We need to meet with various department heads to discuss qualifications. Each department head had their list of questions that pertained to their areas and how well you were qualified. There was also a desire to understand if you are a self-starter
TAC Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesDecember 1, 2012Applied for this position online and was contacted the next day by a recruiter at Cisco. Started with a 10-minute prescreen phone interview (nothing technical). This included questions like "Why do you want to work for Cisco?" and some information a
Software Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesJanuary 1, 2017The recruiter set up a phone screen. This was an hour long, and the interviewer asked me about OS, Data Structures, OOPS, and gave me a problem to solve. Then, there was an onsite round, which consisted of more DS and algorithm problems, varying fro
