Cisco

Laid-back, positive environment, decent salary, good manager, forgiving environment. Sometimes there are inevitable frustrations and hard times, but they quickly blow over. Great technologies to learn.

Free EV charger.

Some of the cafeterias are decent.

Employees can go to any of the numerous buildings covering a massive area at any time (except the lab) and sit anywhere to attend meetings or do whatever.

Public newspapers say Cisco is getting fatter in the middle and needs to get rid of excess mid-level management. In some ways, it might be true, but I've also seen talented and experienced engineers impacted while incompetent engineers have stayed. They really need to be careful in this respect because many good employees have left during the last year. More jobs are getting done by fewer employees as a result, and quality suffers too.

They encourage new ideas, but quality and experience take a back seat. Quite a lot of times, there is turmoil.

I feel like it is impossible to move within the company. A few other job inquiries resulted in no reply.

Train employees to be technically sharp; many of the employees are sloppy.

Focus on quality in parallel with new ideas.