Cisco reviews

Some of the dumbest people work here. Morale is ruined by the yearly and then now the monthly layoffs. Management are good liars. They are good at rationalizing their mistakes. Once you lose trust, it is impossible to get it back.

Once you have accepted the offer & joined, it is quite difficult to move up or get appreciated, unless you are good at kiss a** to succeed. Lot of engineers with mediocre talent perhaps the budget dictates the quality of people. Bureaucracy & process bogs down everything. First skill you should need is politics and how to derail others work. Cisco internal Pulse employee survey meant to get candid feedback about their boss / management & Cisco. But it is one big phony trick, you will forced to give a positive feedback abt boss & senior management, if not you will have to face the same consequence on performance review, because the management will indirectly warm you that they have a mechanism to identify what the individuals response are. We are developing a product for past 4-5 years under the excuse that the customers absolutely rely on it for their day to day network operations, but in fact there is only a handful of actual users using the system out of 1000's of projected users, and we haven't even added any net new features for more than past 2 years with 20+ team just doing bug fixes, because the code & standards are so poor. There is not much respect/value for engineering, which leads to high attrition, it is like a revolving door. I have seen more than 25 people come join & leave in my team alone... Decided its time to move on..