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1. People are talented and great to work with.
2. Work/Life Balance.
3. Benefits.

1. MEETINGS

2. Bureaucracy causes many teams to move slow, but that may be expected of a company of this size.

3. Engineers in IT are underpaid when compared to the industry standard.

4. Engineering work can be really dull in IT. It's common for engineers to get stuck doing third-party integrations, as much of the engineering work in IT is outsourced to cut costs.

5. Engineering culture is not strong in IT. Agile development is a relatively new thing in the organization, and it's questionable how many teams execute the methodology.

6. Office perks are nonexistent besides popcorn in most buildings.

Invest more into the engineering culture in your teams and Cisco as a whole.