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Big and bureaucratic, but solid benefits/pay

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Cisco for 6 years
January 30, 2015
San Jose, California
4.0
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Pros

Very good benefits, super nice gym and sports facilities.

People are nice, and it is really hard to find a bad manager.

Great work/life balance; you work as much as you want.

Very long career oriented, they have a lot of different positions you can move to or from.

Cons

A big and old corporation.

Old technologies.

Too many boring steps to build features or products, which is why they acquire other companies.

A lot of the products are in a maintenance state, so you end up working on bugs most of the time.

They promote once every 3-4 years but only increase salary by 3%.

Advice to Management

Please increase the percentage once you get promoted. 3% is very low for all the hard work employees put in to get promoted.

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