Cisco

Cutting-edge technologies.

Plenty of training if you so desire.

• 22 PTO days a year
• Flexibility (teleworker)
• Good benefits
• 401k matching
• Life insurance

Mid-year and end-of-year bonuses. Employee stock purchase program. Indoor and outdoor recreational facilities onsite. Cafeteria onsite.

Quarterly layoffs. Lack of job security, regardless of employee or group performance. All innovation comes from acquisitions. Politics, politics, politics. Solution overlap between groups/business units.

Due to frequent layoffs, Cisco employees tend to focus more on where they can jump next (whether inside or outside Cisco) for job security rather than being successful in their current role.

I am not sure how to fix this, but I can certainly tell you this is the mentality of most of the employees at Cisco these days.