Cisco reviews

You will not be compensated very well, you will not receive very good benefits, you will be forced to dealing with lots of change without any input into the decisions or how they will be implemented. You are forced to deal with LOTS of management, including VPs that don't even have anyone that report to them. Generally you will be at the mercy of the upper management and whatever benefits you have now will be slowly taken away, without you getting a say into how, why or when they will go away.

Dealing with too many 'technically below par" engineers and even worse the Managers who are technically incompetent. Hence your learning will be limited. If you stick long enough, you will never come out of this mess because you won't get any outside jobs with your primitive skills you end up learning here at Cisco. I deal with great many business units and groups within Cisco. There are lot of unproductive people who does not have enough work to do. Like the product managers. Most of these product managers will not have their job plates full for a good portion of an year. This is also true for lots of engineering managers and directors. Essentially they are misusing the public investment with poor money management.