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Cisco Systems – “This company is going down hill

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Aug 8, 2009

1.0

Cisco Systems Hardware Engineer IV in Austin, TX:   (Current Employee)

Pros

Good Brand name
Still Market Share Leader

Cons

No chance for promotion
Engineers are treated as second-class citizens by MBA grad managers
No innovatation, simply to mantain staus-quo

Advice to Senior Management

Start getting rid of some layers of management. There are too many instances in the reporting structure where a Director has a single Director, who has a single director under him/her.

Consider laying off some director-level management instead of all taking the cost cutting on engineers in the trenches.

Comment (1)

Aug 8, 2009

by hw:

this company builds crap.
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