Smart People, Slow Company
Smart People, Slow Company
- Good name recognition
- Breadth of non-engineering opportunities
- There are some really smart people
- Every so often, cutting edge tech
- Lots of maintenance
- Very slow-moving company
- They're more than willing to cut benefits
- They turn off half the lights in the buildings
- Middle management is expanding
- Senior management seems clueless most of the time
Listen to the engineers. Respect the engineers. Don't forget the engineers exist. Let engineers do good work without being hampered by some arcane "process". Stop with the councils and boards. Refocus on the core of Cisco, not the peripheral crap.
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San Jose, California, United StatesDecember 5, 2024I completed two phone interviews. They asked basic questions, and nothing was too difficult. The interview mostly focused on past experience. It seemed a little impersonal, almost as if they were reading from a script.
