Relaxed, But Team Varies
Relaxed, But Team Varies
Cisco is a decent company that cares about its employees and is a very relaxed environment. A good portion of the people get to work after 10 and leave around 4 with a long lunch break, and they are able to do the work efficiently.
The experience seems to vary greatly between teams. Avoid the Java folks and you'll be fine ;)
They are trying a little too hard to make sure "the sun never sets on Cisco software development," and it creates communication problems for many of the teams. A lot of the employees just slip by, but it's like that everywhere.
Don't worry so much about geographically distributing teams; focus more on maintaining a quality codebase.
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