Cisco reviews

Cisco is a huge company and you can spend a year drowning in bureaucracy and fighting for change within groups that refuse to do things any better than they ever have before. Some engineers at Cisco are incredibly smart whereas other engineers are incredibly dense. Cisco prefers quantity over quality not only in their employees but also in their products. Shipping a half-baked product on a silly schedule to meet some arbitrary marketing deadlines just seems wrong. No one at Cisco seems to care that their products have a terrible reputation and without the brand recognition no one would buy them. Cisco India (Bangalore) is definitely focused on keeping seats warm rather than building a quality engineering force.

Incompetent senior management that is unbelievably short sighted. Promotions are only possible by being hand-picked by a VP who are the least qualified. The result is chains of incompetent management. Marketing is ridiculously superficial and self-serving. Development is cheap and poor quality. Indeed Chambers is a great CEO. He's an excellent business manager, visionary and leader. However, Chambers is a horrible technical manager and cannot make Cisco into the world-class company we should be. As proof, see the recent departure of Alan Baratz. Great technical VP who barely lasted 6 months. Stock has gone nowhere in 10 years and this is the cause.