Cisco

Absolutely nothing I can think of.

Primary Cons

• No development / innovative work
• Only bug fixing & debugging work
• Low-level coding standards are used in the codebase
• You will spend most of your time debugging an error a colleague in the USA office is stuck with
• You will gradually lose your coding skills due to no application to daily work
• The software engineering role is more like a DevOps or networking role
• You will be surrounded by people who don't care about what they work on; basically, people just living for the weekends
• Not a lot of monetary benefits, very petty hikes & bonuses
• Hiring standards are very low; they pretty much hire anyone with basic coding / scripting skills
• Employee strength is huge, which leads to chaos in daily activities
• No well-defined vision; requirements from your manager keep changing every Monday
• You may work on code for an idea for a few days, eventually to find that idea has been scrapped by higher management
• Not one of those companies that shift performing employees to HQ in the USA
• Flexible work timing is just a trap, which gives them the right to make you work at night or weekends
• Lots of blame games between teams, just to divert bugs / issues from themselves
• Not at all suited for people starting their career, as the learning phase is almost nil
• Innovative or product development ideas are dropped because people are busy debugging build issues
• Cisco Bangalore does not have any R&D labs as such; it was built for the sole purpose of providing support to the San Jose office
• Very low-skilled people, not up to date with emerging technologies, nor do they have the zeal to learn
• In case you joined newly from college, you will be randomly assigned a division, then it's pretty difficult to move to any division of your choice (may take years)

Secondary cons:

• More than 7000 employees on campus, too crowded
• Cafeteria food is very bad
• Located in a dirty and polluted area

To sum up, you will be reduced to a guy who answers queries, solves build issues, and resolves bugs related to the work in San Jose HQ.

• Please improve your hiring standards to begin with; I guess quality always prevails over quantity.
• Improve the quality of work by collaborating with teams in USA HQ.
• Change the middle-level management structure.