Cisco

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.