Still not sure..
Still not sure..
Stability - no one is going to buy Cisco any time soon (though there is still attrition).
Incredible wealth of resources available. Lots of super-smart people running around. Lots of market share in virtually every product line, and the cachet that comes with the Cisco name.
Huge company. Too many competitors with better technology. Cisco can't be expected to turn on a dime, but the products need to ramp faster.
The whole "end to end" argument is getting stale with a lot of customers. We need to innovate in areas other than revenue and market share, or both will ultimately suffer.
Innovate. Product cycle times have to improve. The "Advanced Technologies" are at least 1-2 years behind much of the competition.
Also, quite a few of the products have a lot of buggy code. Entire releases are to be avoided because of instability. Many customers have to make the difficult decision between "new, needed features" and "stability" far too often.
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San Jose, California, United StatesNovember 14, 2025It was fairly good and well organized. The team was very friendly and interactive. The interview process was smooth and finished the process in a week.
ML/AI Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesOctober 24, 2025It was a one-round interview. It was predominantly on data science and large language models. They gave me a repo of an agent framework and asked me to find the code where reward is calculated.
ASIC Design Verification Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesJuly 1, 2025The first round was essentially a screening interview with the recruiter. We mostly discussed my resume, past experiences, and had a general conversation about the company and the role. The second round was more technical. It involved a deeper dive
