My experience with Cisco management has been that protecting the existing hierarchy matters more than helping employees succeed. I've watched good people get stuck while management keeps doing the same thing. If your goal is to advance your career, tough luck.
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@OP so true, been with Cisco for 8 years, seen that too many times, especially within a certain group of management inside an Indian community
My experience with Cisco management has been that protecting the existing hierarchy matters more than helping employees succeed.
You get what you measure and what you measure defines "success." Cisco had zero technical leadership due to John Chambers saying "don't fall into the trap of helping other people" and managers took that as an excuse not to bother to learn how team leads improved entire teams so people even at the highest technical levels cut and pasted code that didn't even compile because KLOCs and check-in rates were the only metrics. The result was a lot of new minivans and branches that didn't build for months at a time.
I’m slowly realizing this. Management says I need to do less of XYZ to get promoted, all the while assigning more of that work to me. Lol just absolutely no support or feedback. This place is a joke.
@OP 100% #thisisthway. Fu-k cisco