Cisco

• Excellent infrastructure (workspaces/labs/IT support/TAC) to support engineers.

• Challenging technical work. Plenty of opportunities to work on problems faced by largest SP's and web OTT customers like AT&T/Verizon/Facebook/Google/Amazon etc.

• Large pool of talented and experienced software and hardware professionals.

• Great access to Cisco's global engineering talent.

• Mgmt largely expects and values initiative and self-driven attitude from employees.

• Only top performers are well taken care of in terms of overall compensation, equity grants/bonus etc.

• Best employee transport system in Bangalore.

• Flexi time. There is an opportunity to achieve work-life balance.

Looks like someone might pull the plug on this one soon :)

Pay viz a viz competition needs to be reviewed.

It's not clear to employees whether management considers loyal long-term employees as assets or liabilities.

Desperately need role models in both the technical and management ladders.

Since the organization has grown, there is a risk of dilution in quality. Every senior grade must have competent people.

Only then will junior/new employees trust the fairness of the system, which could indirectly help reduce voluntary attrition and build the site's credibility in taking up more impactful and innovative work.