Cisco reviews

Beyond 10 years of experience. you will murder your techical carrier growth . There is now cutting edge technical work moving to india. CISCO India Less 0.5% have any meaning ful growth. These are the chosen onces by VP/ Director , who are given RSUs more oftern. RSUs distribution is always done in close doors and its opaque. you will not even know if a quarter has budget for that . Very few coming from external hired make a mark. Worst thing is you will end up reporting to your buddy / colleague - or may be junior who chose to be people manager , than being in technical ( not even having management degrees) . No matter , the person could be technical background, be even 50% of your capapbilities. But he is well oiled in the system . Salaries for pure technical individual contributors can be compared by service companies once you complete 5 years of normalization.

No job security! They acquire so many companies and then just lay you off as if you make no difference or impact. How on earth do they keep getting rewarded for “Great Place to Work”. After a fraction of my department was let go, it left those behind with such a bitter taste in their mouths because we did all the work for them and now they have no one.