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Software Engineering Intern @ Cisco

Software Engineering Intern
Former Employee
Worked at Cisco for 1 year
October 21, 2015
Claremont, California
3.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Great training; Cisco employees are often real domain experts in their fields.

The company throws lots of events for interns.

Flexible, can work from home.

People are friendly.

Good place to go for a first internship to learn lots about a crucial area (networking), not a great place to go to work on production features and have a big impact.

Cons

Pay per hour is 1/2 of what the top industry players pay!

It's also been 6 weeks since my internship ended, and they haven't gotten back to anyone in my intern cohort about return offers. HR is overwhelmed.

It's an older company, so culture is a little stale/unexcited. The work-from-home policy makes for an empty/dead office sometimes.

Advice to Management

Upper management seems to have a good handle on market transitions and places to take the company, but their excitement and vision is not getting to ordinary engineers.

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