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Software Engineer I
Current Employee
Has worked at Cisco for less than 1 year
April 2, 2009
San Jose, California
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Pros

Good for anyone who lives networking, C, Java, and web applications. Pays well, and benefits are okay. Work from home is especially good.

Cons

It is a software engineering job and can be very boring and tedious at times.

Java is non-algorithmic coding, and the only thing you learn is more Java. You don't really research any novel ideas and implement them; you just maintain and update old products with new features.

Features developed sometimes make you think if anyone will use them, even internally.

If you are not interested in software, this is not your heaven.

Performance is based on how many customer-found defects you resolve and the quality of your code.

Advice to Management

They are doing a good job and let you know where the product is going.

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