Cisco: Many positives, but also some negatives
Cisco: Many positives, but also some negatives
Great name recognition on your resume. Typically smart and competent coworkers. Wide market deployment for Cisco hardware, good exposure to customers. Stable company. Attention to good development practices like code review, unit tests, etc. Good benefits.
Big companies mean a lot of momentum, so change happens slowly.
Support and maintenance for existing/legacy software can be frustrating.
Some managers have no personal lives and expect you to behave similarly, often with the expectation of constant availability by email and working on weekends.
Too much process slows down the pace of development.
In many ways, the problems at Cisco are because of the company's success.
Now, Cisco is extremely large and change happens slowly.
New ideas take a long time to adopt, and even that requires constant driving.
The solution to every problem is not always additional process. More decision-making should be left to engineering expertise, not a one-size-fits-all process that can be applied universally.
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Software Engineer III
I came in through the 2007 Choice Program. I met a recruiter at university, had a 1:1 interview, and was then scheduled to come on-site for an interview with three engineers. The questions were very easy, probably because they wanted to attract young
Software Engineer III
* A quick phone interview, a basic resume review, and a couple of quick OS questions. * Six one-hour sessions on Webex. All interviews were conducted remotely. * The questions were easy. * It took a long time to get an offer, but it was accepted in t
Software Engineer III
The process was straightforward. I spoke with four technical members of the team and two managers. The questions were technical, focusing on areas I had already reviewed. They also discussed programming. Fit was an important area they discussed. Th
Software Engineer III
San Jose, California, United StatesAugust 18, 2014I came in through the 2007 Choice Program. I met a recruiter at university, had a 1:1 interview, and was then scheduled to come on-site for an interview with three engineers. The questions were very easy, probably because they wanted to attract young
Software Engineer III
San Jose, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2013* A quick phone interview, a basic resume review, and a couple of quick OS questions. * Six one-hour sessions on Webex. All interviews were conducted remotely. * The questions were easy. * It took a long time to get an offer, but it was accepted in t
Software Engineer III
San Jose, California, United StatesJune 1, 2011The process was straightforward. I spoke with four technical members of the team and two managers. The questions were technical, focusing on areas I had already reviewed. They also discussed programming. Fit was an important area they discussed. Th
