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Casual Work, Broken Leadership

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Cisco for less than 1 year
February 21, 2011
2.0
Doesn't RecommendDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Casual work environment Flexible work schedule

Cons

Middle management and above are only worried about protecting political turf.

Executive management seems to have lost focus, losing ground to competition in core products and wasting money on poor acquisitions (Scientific Atlanta, Flip, etc).

The push into consumer products is a dud (does anybody want a Umi?).

The worker bees end up bearing the brunt of each of these poor decisions, as cost-cutting has reached ridiculous levels of insanity.

Advice to Management

Refocus on our core products, or we will lose the goose that lays the golden eggs.

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