Cisco

For Blue Badge employees, there are all kinds of benefits, starting from money, medical benefits, work-from-home expenses, bonuses, training, etc.

For Red Badge, the only benefit I see is the type of work (only applicable for TAC). There's no difference in work between a Red Badge and a Blue Badge employee. Both do the same type of job.

I would recommend only joining as a Blue Badge employee because there is no guarantee you will get converted from Red to Blue.

I would run out of words here with the number of challenges there is for Red badge employees.

• No investment
• No training
• No benefits
• No salary hike
• No more conversion from red to blue. They have only decided henceforth to hire only red badge.
• No proper training for Red badge employees. They will train only for a week or two and then put you directly to work. When my colleague complained about this, Cisco terminated his contract, and it resulted in his firing.

-Cisco Bangalore was an amazing place when it was largely controlled by the head office.

-As it became more autonomous, the culture started to go downhill because then they started caring about numbers and statistics. They need to work on this.

-And if they don't want to convert red badge employees, my advice would be to segregate the type of work between red and blue badge employees because if red badge is supposed to do an equal amount of work as blue and still be underpaid, then everyone would wish to join as a blue badge employee only.