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Sucks to be an older engineer at Cisco

Software Engineering Manager
Former Employee
Worked at Cisco for 20 years
January 12, 2016
Seattle, Washington
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral Outlook
Pros

Latest and greatest for network equipment and 40Gb+ optical stuff.

Cons

Just remember that Cisco is a company run by sales people. The engineers are an unfortunate evil required to sell more equipment. If the senior executives could get rid of the engineers (or replace them with engineers from India or China), they would.

Advice to Management

Acquiring companies to avoid having to invest in engineering is a valid strategy, but boy, it sucks when you are one of the engineers that get acquired.

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