Cisco

Management is very good in general; technical, but with appropriate soft skills. Demands are reasonable; time off, flextime, and telecommuting are all accepted easily.

In general, your personal time is valued greatly, and although I tend to work 45-55 hours a week, I can always count on being able to schedule some time for myself if the need arises.

Tenured employees can sometimes stifle innovation, tend to not understand agile and continuous delivery, and also don't appreciate how flat team structures work.

Encourage new hires to challenge the status quo, and do a quick scrub of some of these old timers:

• Who has been proactive and learning about continuous delivery and agile?
• Conversely, who has been cashing a check while scheduling endless meetings to discuss minutiae of a design plan for a feature we can tweak later (deliver the value now is the agile way.)

Consider evaluating whether or not these tenured employees are pulling their weight, or impeding the adoption of new agile and continuous delivery practices.