Cisco

Great environment (in terms of infrastructure, facilities, policies, resources, opportunities within the organization, trainings for self-learning (not from project), employee benefits, etc.).

Employees love to be part of the organization.

Only one con is management, elaborated below.

1. No regular/proper hikes. If you want a proper hike, you need to switch divisions at regular intervals. You are not important to your division.

2. Layoffs (2 cases): Either you or your division are not doing well, or some top-level management guy makes a crap decision. Long-term survival is difficult.

3. Top management expects too much profit margin from projects (60%) and doesn't respect customer needs. Management decisions affect division business greatly, resulting in the shutdown of divisions. Be smart to predict these and move to some other division or company.

4. Very frequently buy other companies without proper reasons, burn hands, and shut them down.

5. Less innovation.

Note: There may be exceptions for a few divisions (which are doing well).

If management rectifies the cons mentioned, it is a great place to work.