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Good Food, Bad Management

Software Quality Staff Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Cisco for less than 1 year
September 4, 2008
San Jose, California
3.0
Approves of CEO
Pros

Open communication from senior management, nice food in the cafeteria.

Cons

Managers are clueless about the function they manage. People are promoted based on how well they suck up versus performance.

Advice to Management

Stop promoting people based on how well they make PowerPoint slides. Instead, promote based on results—not how well they can spin nothing into what looks like results using PowerPoint.

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