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I have been at Cisco for more than a decade and worked across multiple business units.

Cisco's SP routing business unit (IOS-XR) is one of the bad experiences of my career.

The leadership is really spineless and visionless.

The managers here are merely task managers rather than people managers.

Someone needs to make them understand that they need to take care of people, and people will take care of work themselves.

Instead, they give frivolous arguments and metrics to run away from their responsibility to motivate and retain good employees.

Do show some vision and grow beyond bug counts and such frivolous metrics.

Work on building expertise in the team by providing appropriate training.

Stop moving people around between different tasks three times a day.

Let them settle down and learn something thoroughly before moving them around.

Work with engineers to see how they can learn and grow in their careers.