Cisco

The people are fantastic, personally and professionally.

Very good benefits.

Some of the projects are very interesting.

Perfect work-life balance. I almost never take my work home with me.

Being such a large company, your satisfaction will entirely depend on your current team and project.

Some of the projects are very boring.

There's lots of bad upper management.

Product managers don't know what they're doing.

Not much room for growth unless you have a manager that advocates for you.

There are many layoffs per year after Chuck took over, most of which come as a surprise.

Pay closer attention to individual contributors' morale.

Stop with the surprise layoffs, and stop laying off people for bureaucratic reasons.

Get a product management team that knows how to both listen to customers and properly convey customer requirements to the engineering teams.