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Cisco Systems – “Software Engineer 3”

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Aug 18, 2009

3.0

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Cisco Systems Software Engineer III in San Jose, CA:   (Current Employee)

Pros

excellent benfits, good place to learn new technologies

Cons

poor work-life balance, very slow career-growth, some managers can be slave drivers

Advice to Senior Management

ranking everyone on a bell-curve in annual performance reviews leads to lot of unnecessary competition and ill-will within the CDO engineering teams, and can be counter-productive. Fellow engineers don't trust each other

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Aug 18, 2009

by d:

down-moded because 3.0 is just too generous for this mess of a company.
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Aug 22, 2009

by lcd:

we have a manager that is so f*cking cheap. He makes people buy their own monitors.
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5000+ Employees, $39B+ Revenue
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