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A pretty fair and cool work environment for engineers

Hardware Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Cisco for 20 years
October 21, 2013
San Jose, California
4.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Management is fair and generally trained well. The managers I've worked under are always rational and logical, and always made decisions that are always best for the customer and Cisco.

The benefits, perks, and employee discounts are pretty nice. I don't think smaller companies can afford these kinds of benefits.

Cisco is always growing into new fields and markets, so there are always chances to transfer to do different work if so desired.

Cons

Cisco is a big company, so decision-making and project progress can be slowed.

This is especially true when a project involves two or more business units and priorities between those business units are not always aligned to the same schedule.

Sometimes resources are not allocated because of these differences in priorities.

Advice to Management

I hope management finds a way to better collaborate between business units. I've participated in a couple of projects where the project was cancelled due to a lack of resources or priority between business units.

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