Good Benefits, Frequent Layoffs
Good Benefits, Frequent Layoffs
Good benefits, better than many companies in the Bay Area.
Frequent layoffs, more middle management. The ratio of engineer to manager is 1:1 in some groups.
Due to this, they kill the golden goose: the engineer.
If you want a severance package, please join.
Cut down middle management; they're not flexible to new technologies or ideas.
Always quote Amazon, Apple, FB, etc., but they don't compare with respective managers in those companies. Lot of favors.
There should be mandatory rotation in Cisco groups; otherwise, they stick to their chairs and kill engineers, which eventually sinks the ship (Cisco) overall.
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