Cisco

Very skilled colleagues. Tight team. Excellent work-life balance with the option to work effectively from anywhere (if you agree on it with the team you work the closest with). Bonuses and benefits. Lower management is quite open to suggestions, letting engineers excel in engineering. Space for creativity, self-realization, and direct impact on the technical solution and the product itself.

• Unclear short-term future: The reporting and team structure is undergoing changes, and the reason/goal is not clear to lower management and individual engineers.
• Weaker product ownership.
• Salary probably below average: You can ask for money when hired, but later salary increases are not as frequent as they could be.
• Less diverse collective.

The transformation of the team should have started a year or two sooner and could have been more gradual.