Great pay, not a team environment, bad management chain
Great pay, not a team environment, bad management chain
Great pay was the only benefit I saw at Cisco.
They talk about work-life balance, but it isn't practiced. A manager would say he doesn't check or write emails on weekends and then ask if I read his emails from over the weekend. I went on vacation, and the same thing happened.
Learn how to manage. Take classes on it. Good engineers just need to know a goal and deadline, and the results will follow.
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