Cisco

Nice perks. Everyone gets access to the fitness center and is issued this nice towel.

Shame you're not in a frame of mind to use them unless you're in the right groups.

There's no cafeteria. One of the buildings had one; they shuttered it, but they have this nifty self-serve convenience store stuffed in part of where they had the caf. Debit card only.

Security monitoring since you're not on an honor system with it.

Pros end with what I describe. Management's clearly lost, with nobody sound at the helm.

The mass layoffs you hear about are partly due to their insistence on being multicultural, partly because many of the people involved with anything other than their original core businesses, switching and routing, have this disturbing and shocking lack of understanding of general networking, IP networking, or the like.

They're "good" with things like 802.11 OTA/OTW frames, but behaviors due to spanning tree and the like? Forget it.

And it shows. Look at the reviews of their WAP371AK9 1200AC AP. If you're doing something simple, it works reasonably well. Try to use the claimed features? Whooo...

Simply put, if you're in anything other than the Unified Communications or Switching and Routing BU's, you're in for a trip into hell, and they have as high as a 10% attrition rate from regular ANNUAL RIFs.

Worse, you have to scrape and scrounge for almost ALL hardware you need to do your job, including the PCs. NOT what I would consider to be a good thing with a company such as Cisco.

Surgically remove your heads from your backsides. Your name is about to quit carrying you forward, and you're going to flush the company down the crapper.

Meraki is being treated as "GOD, come down to earth," and they only do "well" in mesh WiFi work from the spun-off RoofNet project (which, by the by, any fool can turn around and obtain that code core from MIT...). They DO NOT have the answers regarding much of anything else, and unifying the codebases... heh...

GUT your Wireless BU and START OVER.