Cisco will waste your important years of your career .. period
Pros
Absolutely nothing I can think of
Cons
Primary Cons - No development / innovative work - Only bug fixing & debugging work - low level coding standards used in the code base - you will spend most of time debugging some error which a guy in USA office is stuck with - will lose your coding skills gradually due to no application to daily work - software engineering role is more like a dev ops networking kind of role - will be surrounded by people who don't care about what they work on, basically people just living for the weekends - not a lot of monetary benefits , very petty hikes & bonuses - hiring standards are very low, they pretty much hire anyone who has basic coding / scripting skills - employee strength is huge , which leads to chaos in daily activities - no well defined vision, requirements from your manager keep changing every monday - you may work on some code on an idea for a few days , eventually to find that idea has scrapped by higher management - not one of those companies who shift performing employees to HQ in USA - flexible work timing is just a trap , which gives them right to make you work at night or weekends - lot of blame game between teams, just to divert bugs / issues from themselves - not at all suited for people starting their career , as learnings phase is almost null - innovative or product development ideas are dropped because people are busy debugging build issues - Cisco bangalore does not have any R&D labs as such, was built for sole purpose for providing support San Jose office - very low skilled people , not up to date with emerging technologies , nor do they have the zeal to learn - in case you joined newly from college, you will be randomly assigned a division, then its pretty difficult to move to any division of your choice (may take years) Secondary cons: - more than 7000 employees in the campus, too much crowded - cafeteria food is very bad - located in a dirty and polluted area TO SUM UP, YOU WILL BE REDUCED TO A GUY WHO ANSWERS QUERIES, SOLVES BUILD ISSUES, AND RESOLVES BUGS RELATED TO THE WORK IN SAN JOSE HQ
