Cisco

Good infrastructure, good work environment, decent employee-friendly policies, decent salary (which may not be the best in the industry but is definitely above average for that industry), decent work-life balance, and personal experience of good, ethical managers.

Personal experience shows that the team I worked in didn't have anything technically very novel or innovative to learn from. As a big organization, standards, policies, and bureaucracies creep in, which do take up your valuable time. The excitement and visibility seen in a startup-like environment will not be present.

Cisco's management is responsive and uses surveys to understand employee sentiment, market trends, and the latest business processes and standards. As a big company, it's not easy to implement changes overnight, but Cisco endeavors to bring in constructive changes slowly. It realizes it needs to make project teams more nimble and agile, which it is doing.