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Great company to work for, but certainly not perfect

Software Engineer II
Current Employee
Has worked at Cisco for 2 years
December 13, 2013
Richardson, Texas
5.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Interesting place to work with a relatively good corporate culture. Competitive salary, good benefits, and lots of smart people. This is a great place to start and grow your career.

Cons

Too many products with development spread around the globe, which makes communication between teams painful.

Advice to Management

Executives pay lip service to empowering engineers and then force technical decisions down the chain. Some products that you work on get canceled because they were dreamed up by executives and marketing guys with unrealistic technical requirements and no customer input. Surprise, surprise, no one buys it and you just wasted 6 months on a project that was doomed to fail from the beginning.

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