Good benefits, nice work surroundings, and some really great people.
If you don't come from Cisco (the Costco of networking), you and your opinions don't count. VPs come in and bring former employees from Cisco with huge promotions, while existing employees stand still. Lots of favoritism.
Still a "HW Box" silicon company with routing bigots. Little sense of applications, web, or end-user.
Geo-political mess. Multiple business units have great difficulty working collectively together, and there is definitely a class structure inside the company. Again, ex-Cisco VPs rule.
Too many Cisco VPs. Hire more engineers so the work can get done right, and don't hire them all in India because they are cheaper. It takes three times as long to get the same amount of work accomplished, and the overhead for both the US and India is extremely high.
EVPs have become AT&T whipping boys.
A lot of talk about quality improvement, but little done in the front end of the development process to encourage better development practices. Test guys have their act together but keep getting overruled by VPs. PLMs... where are they?
Simplify the company. Start hiring from companies that know how to develop, market, and sell applications.
Form a partnership and/or acquire new technologies to differentiate from Cisco.
Strive to be more than the number 2 "plumber" in the industry.
It's good. They ask C, and general system-side and networking stuff.
The HR Recruiter gives a call. The interview process follows, starting from phone calls with 1-2 hour durations. There are 3 phone interview calls. An in-person, face-to-face interview call and presentation follows.
First round: Written test: * 15 IQ/Aptitude/Intelligence questions * 35 Technical questions from Networking, OS, Data Structures, C, C++, S/w Engg, etc. Second round and Third round: Technical face-to-face Questions based on resume + other t
It's good. They ask C, and general system-side and networking stuff.
The HR Recruiter gives a call. The interview process follows, starting from phone calls with 1-2 hour durations. There are 3 phone interview calls. An in-person, face-to-face interview call and presentation follows.
First round: Written test: * 15 IQ/Aptitude/Intelligence questions * 35 Technical questions from Networking, OS, Data Structures, C, C++, S/w Engg, etc. Second round and Third round: Technical face-to-face Questions based on resume + other t