Cisco

Work is chilled out, not very challenging. Even if it was challenging or engaging at any time, I never had to move beyond my comfort zone to meet expectations.

Cab service is good.

New buildings are good (BGL17, 18). Older buildings look like 10-year-old government offices.

Pay is pretty low compared to market standards. They don't seem to normalize salaries.

New campus hires are paid more than Software Engineer-II (3-4 yr exp band).

Annual increments are usually around 10% and on promotion around 5-10%.

Management needs to address the growing attrition rate. The pay is much lower than market value for the people working at Cisco.

The only place where they make an effort to correct it is in campus hiring. They do this only out of fear of not getting enough candidates from NITs and IITs, as companies visiting their campuses offer much more.

However, the problem is that they hire college freshers paying them much more than existing employees at Cisco, like college freshers who joined 3-4 years ago.

Management is doing a very poor job when it comes to normalizing pay, and there exists a vast disparity in pay within the organization.

A 3-year experienced person getting lower pay than a fresh college hire in the same team is fundamentally wrong. No self-respecting engineer will continue to stay in the organization after learning about this kind of disparity.

However, management seems to be ignoring this issue, and I didn't get a proper response when I raised it.

Ultimately, there is a very high attrition rate in the 0-8 years experience bracket, primarily due to low pay.