Cisco

Flexible working hours with great work-life balance.

Work from home option is one of the biggest facilities this company provides, and there is hardly any micromanagement.

Hard to manage work-life balance. Very big company with constant changes.

In my time at Cisco, I was part of three different and distinct business units.

I enjoyed working for each of them and found that I was able to contribute value in every role I held.

What was painfully obvious to me was that the company is (or was) going through a bit of an identity crisis.

Consumer vs. no consumer. Social media vs. no social media. AWS-like cloud offering vs. Cisco cloud offering.

My advice to the leadership team is this: We (Cisco for life) are Cisco. We develop the standard for networking, infrastructure, and cloud.