Cisco reviews

Hasn't had competent top level engineering management since 2007. Complete chaos in engineering across all product lines. Fierce internal executive rivalries and frequent engineering executive shuffling make it very difficult to successfully complement projects. Company completes only a small number of the numerous of engineering projects it starts. Business units are littered with un-dead zombie projects that have undergone multiple direction changes and leadership changes. Cisco's new product development life cycle now generally exceeds technology life cycles. It takes so long to develop products that the product technology is obsolete when the product ships. Everything aspect of engineering possible is being out-sourced without out regard to the impact on quality, efficiency, and ROI. Cisco treats its engineers like farm animals.

"Cisco used to be a good company but now not anymore". I hared about this from so many current-ciscos and ex-ciscos. It is absolutely true from my years of experience at NMTG, which is the worst BU at cisco. Another saying is what cisco can do is acquiring companies as cisco itself cannot build anything. There are numeric examples about the products through acquisition failed later like the camera. Some of them would be market pearl If not run by cisco. I sometime ask people why the company occupied so much talents but making so much junks never delivered to customers. Now, the company is less and less competitive to Juniper, F5, HP, especially Huawei, which would be a terminator of cisco if no protection from the US government. There are so many factors to mar the company:prevalent unfairness, nepotism, incompetence, arbitrariness and rigid layer. All of these formed a huge manacle for creativeness and innovation.