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Great for a fresh graduate with a family

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Cisco for less than 1 year
September 26, 2008
Boxborough, Massachusetts
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Pros

Great team, good pay, nice managers (at least in the BU I work for).

Pleanty of new technologies to learn, with Gurus around you. Tons of cutting edge equipment to work on.

1 month of PTO for fresh, plus virtually unlimited choice of WFH via company paid broadband service. Top school districts around the campus.

Cons

Too many low-level managers from a South Asian country, and they are mean, mean, mean!

Where do the stock options go?

Not as well paid as Yahoo! and Google, especially by stock bonus.

Relatively long working hours, although it's normal in the industry.

No free lunch, like Google, and no free dinner, like Juniper.

Advice to Management

Diversify... not just in the market, but also in mid-management teams.

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