Good Work/life Balance, No Growth
Good Work/life Balance, No Growth
Great work-life balance. Great place to start and/or end your career.
Great people.
Work-from-home option can be exercised freely.
Decent benefits.
Perpetual organizational churn. Employees referred to as resources. No clear goals/targets (talking about engineering departments here). No performance evaluation, making it difficult to chart a growth course if you are beginning your career.
I think with all the spin-in business, Cisco forgot about internal organic growth.
- Delegate.
- Trust and back the people you manage.
- Think a plan through and then let it run its course. Example: Moving a team from Waterfall to Agile is not going to give you desired dev velocities and quality immediately. Hold your judgment for a couple of sprints at least.
- Focus on implementing changes in letter AND SPIRIT. Going back to the dev life cycle: Breaking a waterfall into a cascade is not Agile.
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San Jose, California, United StatesJuly 1, 2025An OA (Online Assessment) is auto-generated just after application. Then, based on performance on the OA, you get a reach-out. These are followed by rounds such as technical, behavioral, and screening rounds. The screening is followed by technical ro
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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.
