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Has a culture of good ethics and compensates employees fairly. Fairly exciting work involving modern network technologies

Technical Lead
Current Employee
Has worked at Cisco for 20 years
August 28, 2012
4.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

The leadership is ethically sound, and an ethical culture is promoted. Employees are compensated fairly, and managers are encouraged to be considerate towards allowing a good work/life balance.

Engineers get to work on modern and leading-edge network technologies, often with deep worldwide market penetration, which can be rewarding.

Cons

Cisco does not have any real research division. All work is very product-to-market focused.

The company is very big, which means bureaucratic processes, red tape, and infighting.

Engineers work in very boring cubicles. The "break rooms" are noisy, dirty kitchens.

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