The technical giant is dragged down by its cultural baggage and politics at the management level
The technical giant is dragged down by its cultural baggage and politics at the management level
Cisco is still a network equipment branch, from the outsider's view. The company continues to make customers believe in its leadership in the router/switches market.
In building the core software, Cisco gives priority to politics and release deadlines instead of delivering quality software in a model approach. Middle management staff are mostly from a specific ethnic group. They are more interested in their personal success than the success of the company.
Many of the software managers may be knowledgeable in their domain software. But a lot of them lack the basic skill of interacting with people, not to talk of their poor management of their technical staff. I wish Cisco well in the future. But the current trend of software development in the company is sinking to the bottom of an ocean quickly. I am speaking from an insider's view.
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