Cisco

Cisco is a huge company, and you can spend a career jumping from group to group every few years and never work on the same thing again. Despite what a lot of the reviews here claim, Cisco does pay what they should be paying. Some of the business units within Cisco treat their employees better than others, and it would be wise to interview with more than one if you're considering a switch to Cisco.

Cisco is a huge company, and you can spend a year drowning in bureaucracy and fighting for change within groups that refuse to do things any better than they ever have before.

Some engineers at Cisco are incredibly smart, whereas other engineers are incredibly dense. Cisco prefers quantity over quality, not only in their employees but also in their products.

Shipping a half-baked product on a silly schedule to meet some arbitrary marketing deadlines just seems wrong. No one at Cisco seems to care that their products have a terrible reputation. Without the brand recognition, no one would buy them.

Cisco India (Bangalore) is definitely focused on keeping seats warm rather than building a quality engineering force.

Continue the emphasis on building better quality into products.

Create an emphasis on losing employees that don't pull their own weight; we're better off without them.

If you're flying to Bangalore and not a VP, you should still be in business class. 20 hours on an airplane in coach is ridiculous, and the double standard is insulting.