Cisco reviews

Micromanagement is rampant and backed up by a culture of fear External tools are poorly chosen, overvalued as silver bullets, and not optimized to fit the needs of developers Employee evaluation system is based on an individual's reputation for working long hours, oratory skills in meetings, powerpoint skills in presentations, and popularity with upper management Advice of developers is disregarded by technical leads and managers, yet failure is always attributed to a lack of effort and communication among the team Project marketing and team size are used as leverage among management, leading to unhealthy competition between teams, code redundancy, and useless features creeping into requirement lists Hard work is not rewarded as much as shameless self promotion and socializing outside the office Deadlines and milestones are decided without any input from developers implementing the requests

There is NO work life balance. If you're in sales, you have weekly commits that are not good for the customers or the sales people. A lot of political BS....give it another 5 years and it will be just like IBM. The fist and second level management is, for the most part, quite weak.