Cisco

Brand name

Market leader

Salary at higher side in the industry

Here, all that matters is the numbers. No care for personal time for employees.

If you are a developer, how many LOC, how many bugs fixed is all that matters. If you are a test engineer, how many bugs filed, LOC in automation, no. of test cases.

Most of the products use very old networking technology. Not much innovation in most of the teams. Not much growth for employees. No salary hike was given in the last two years for most of the employees.

Management takes initiative only to showcase something, and nothing is really productive or improves quality. There is no care for employee improvement or work-life balance. Even if an initiative is wrong, management makes employees work hard for it, though they know it will not work. They don't care what employees go through or the issues they face in day-to-day work. All they need is to show numbers in the report.