Cisco Software Development Engineering reviews

Some processes are still cast in need of a greater maturation in their structure

- Flex hours + laptop quickly become an excuse for being asked to work anytime, all the time, even evenings and weekends. - Life/work balance sucks. - Culture of micromanagement and lack of trust in employees, even experienced ones. - Outdated/broken processes and tools, which makes all those additional long hours spent seem like a waste. - No periodic salary increases unless you get promoted, which can take forever. Not uncommon to find people with the same salary for over 5 years, even some up to 10 if they started high. - No stock options or RSUs unless you are at the top of the food chain. - 4 weeks of vacation never increase regardless of tenure and if you or family get sick, there are no sick days, so you need to use vacation days. Also forced to use vacation days during mandatory Christmas break company wide shutdown. - A lot of legacy systems and technologies, so there could be very few opportunities to work on latest and greatest tech depending on the organization you are in. - Support heavy load. Most developers spend > 50% of the time fixing bugs. - Lots of politics, and I mean A LOT. Most times politics win over technical merit or even common sense. - Some tendency for upper management to "bully" employees (public shaming, escalating up the management chain vs one on one and discussing alternatives).