Cisco

If you need a job to pay the bills, it will do it. You have the benefit of the big name Cisco. Looks good on a resume. You can easily be hired. Most likely, the people who will interview you don't know much about software development. But be careful; that can backfire.

If they see you know too much, they won't hire you to avoid looking inferior (an old game: hire someone worse than you to look better).

Remember the Seinfeld episode where Kramer went to do karate with little kids? That's it...

Although backed up by the name Cisco, every office is different.

This review is specifically for the Orange County office, if you are looking to be hired there.

If you are a motivated software engineer, I do not recommend this office. Management is not qualified.

Career advancement does not happen based on merit, if at all.

A lot of injustice, politics, and wasting time on things that don't matter, instead of investing on the ones that do.

It's hard to work on good projects. They will promise you exciting stuff, but then you will find yourself fixing bugs on horrible code bases written by who knows who.

Management is ridiculous. Bunch of talks, no facts.

Management needs a makeover.

Or read some good books about good management.