Great company, great customers, great culture
Great company, great customers, great culture
Cisco is reinventing itself. I came in through an acquisition, and it's been a fantastic experience. There's a lot of opportunity to move around Cisco if you get tired of doing what you're doing after a few years.
Company needs to be more HR flexible on comp, grades, etc. As a manager, it's tough to do what we need to recruit and retain great talent. Most policies are designed for a 70,000-person company, which is fine, but there needs to be way more flexibility around exceptions for exceptional people.
Make more decisions more quickly. A speedboat corrects faster than an aircraft carrier.
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Vice President Engineering
While meetings were difficult to coordinate, involved last-minute calendar changes, and suffered from lapses in communication, once held, they were both informative and productive. Opportunities are vast at Cisco. Some organizational realignments ma
Quality Assurance
It was fairly good and well organized. The team was very friendly and interactive. The interview process was smooth and finished the process in a week.
ML/AI Engineer
It was a one-round interview. It was predominantly on data science and large language models. They gave me a repo of an agent framework and asked me to find the code where reward is calculated.
Vice President Engineering
San Jose, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2016While meetings were difficult to coordinate, involved last-minute calendar changes, and suffered from lapses in communication, once held, they were both informative and productive. Opportunities are vast at Cisco. Some organizational realignments ma
Quality Assurance
San Jose, California, United StatesNovember 14, 2025It was fairly good and well organized. The team was very friendly and interactive. The interview process was smooth and finished the process in a week.
ML/AI Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesOctober 24, 2025It was a one-round interview. It was predominantly on data science and large language models. They gave me a repo of an agent framework and asked me to find the code where reward is calculated.
