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Lots of Politics, Breeding Place for Insecurity in Engineers

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Cisco for less than 1 year
August 20, 2011
Milpitas, California
3.0
Doesn't Approve of CEO
Pros
  1. Good Benefits / Pay Package
  2. Good on-site facilities
  3. Good talented pool of engineers
Cons
  1. Bad bonus awarding model: high politics for higher bonuses, ratings, and promotions.
  2. Lot of politics, lobby, and groupism.
  3. Less focus on innovation.
  4. Differentiation of contractors.
  5. Too many contractors.

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