Cisco reviews

Micromanagement is rampant and backed up by a culture of fear External tools are poorly chosen, overvalued as silver bullets, and not optimized to fit the needs of developers Employee evaluation system is based on an individual's reputation for working long hours, oratory skills in meetings, powerpoint skills in presentations, and popularity with upper management Advice of developers is disregarded by technical leads and managers, yet failure is always attributed to a lack of effort and communication among the team Project marketing and team size are used as leverage among management, leading to unhealthy competition between teams, code redundancy, and useless features creeping into requirement lists Hard work is not rewarded as much as shameless self promotion and socializing outside the office Deadlines and milestones are decided without any input from developers implementing the requests

- They brag on how they value a balance of personal and work.. But if you are an engineer, then this does not apply - Pay freeze since 2001 - Merit Increase freeze - Bonus are a fraction of what they once were and shrinking every year - Benefits are shrinking Advancement is non-existent Training on new products is a joke Taking personal time off is frowned on (considering mgmt thinks that it your an engineer you should not have a personal life nor want to be home when you are sick) What you need sleep too? Imagine if you can, taking a simple situation then have management put the most convoluted, backward processes on it so that it hampers any progress and makes your job harder by a thousand fold. Then when the project takes too long, or just fails it can not be their fault. (Even though they have you are doing the work of three engineers. ) Nope it has to be you did not prioritize it right. " What you want to get 4 hours sleep? "