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Good Culture, Shifting Focus

Software Engineer IV
Current Employee
Has worked at Cisco for 6 years
November 11, 2016
Bengaluru, Karnataka
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros
  1. Great culture
  2. Good work-life balance
  3. Decent pay
Cons
  1. Keeps changing focus and calls it agile - just wants to sell the hottest thing on the market.
  2. Hikes are few and far between, and very low too.
Advice to Management

Cisco is a sales company. This is how everyone inside and outside Cisco refers to it. If you want to sell engineering, then you need sales as well as engineering. If you only focus on sales and ignore engineering, you will be left with nothing to sell.

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