Cisco

Cisco has the money to provide engineers with equipment to do their work. So if you're an engineer, and you love to be an engineer, and you're lucky to be in the few business units that still value your work, then good for you.

Too many Cisco Business Units (BU) waste their time in useless talks leading nowhere.

Friends at Cisco in other BUs report the same thing. Cisco is no longer what it used to be.

These BUs are rotten with politics. Managers and directors falsify their work results to please their VPs. All they care for is to be "visible" to VPs and upper management. Care for great product quality is the least of their priority.

Of course, customers are not happy. Product quality has degraded a lot.

Silos and politics have accumulated for way too long. Chambers allowed that to happen.

I have no idea how you would fix this. I hope new management can return Cisco to what it used to be. There is still a lot of potential. There are still many good people around. Don't lose them.