Stable, but unmotivating place to work for. Stable, but unmotivating place to work for
Pros
Good benefit, completive scalars, flexible working schedules.
Cons
Has all the problems that a big company has. The company tried to change this by introducing a CDO college new hire program, and hoping the fresh blood can give more momentum to Cisco. But the result is just the opposite as what it was designed for originally. At first the screening process of the CDO program is too easy. Lots of new hire coming through this program are very high paid without a matching quality. And once they are choosen by the CDO program, they are offered to free pick any group to work for within Cisco. A lots of managers love to get them, just because the first year budge if coming from the company, not the BU. And the following years, if you got more people, you got more budgets. But very often the team can not swallow this much new college grades and sometimes the group doesn’t even have much work for them to do at all. So many of them end up sitting around, and picking up the bad culture of Cisco quickly, This further ruins the culture at Cisco, as an indirect result of it many senior and well experienced people are leaving Cisco.