Cisco

It used to be a good place to work. Experience looks good on a resume. ESSP was a great deal. Severance is good when they offshore you.

In Cali, India, or China, it is probably an okay job.

In RTP, you can be in sales or support and possibly have a future. If you are a Sr. developer in RTP, your future is limited.

When you start teaching offshore replacements, be worried.

Don't be surprised if you work nights and weekends, have great performance reviews, and then are thrown out like old socks.

If your goal is to get rid of your best, brightest, hardest-working staff, and break up teams that work great together, then you are going an A+ job.