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Good Perks, Bureaucratic Hell

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Cisco for less than 1 year
November 4, 2016
Boxborough, Massachusetts
3.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Good benefits, nice gyms, good cafes, has ESPP, and Work From Home options (depending on group).

Lots of runway to get projects off the ground, if management wouldn't ground the projects.

Cons

Too big of a company to get out of their own way. Management hinders the process and does not help grow the company or individual engineers. To further the issue, there were no checks and balances between what VPs were asking and what management was telling you to do. Micromanagement could be a real issue.

Advice to Management

You have some really talented engineers. Listen to them!

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