Management expects you to be top-tier at everything while they can’t even do the basics of their own job. And when internal positions open up (at least in my area) they won’t even consider the people already here doing the work. It’s like they’d rather bring in strangers than promote anyone who actually knows the system.
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Ever get the feeling that King George's revenge on us was Colonial India?
I’m surprised for this younger generation, Cisco doesn’t hand out participation awards to those eligible for promotions but not selected.
It’s like they’d rather bring in strangers than promote anyone whoactually[most often don't] knows the system.
FTFY. I worked at a remote site where whole teams were moved from one major system to another frequently and anyone who knew anything useful either quit or died by the time we got there. Managers hanging off Chambers' "don't fall into the trap of helping other people" extended that with "we don't want to know what you do and don't want to so if you make someone else look better based upon how we 'feel' you're the one we're going to lay off" so even if someone had an answer they had every incentive in the world not to share it. Does XR still do music chairs every other year so people can move to a new part of the code, hate it, bi--h about it, and rather than fix it wait two years until the music starts to play?
Same thing over here. Nobody gets promoted, all external. It has happened several times. No I was not interviewing
My unit took a vow to one but beds with another!
I now present you with a 3rd place ribbon. Here's your blow pop, move on.
@a3 Epic fail because you don’t need any skills to work at Cisco. Duh!
rather bring in strangers
those are not strangers.. they are buddies of Indian higher class/Patel-Sharma-Aggrawal or some other religion higher order beings..
External hires are needed to calibrate the team level.
This means your skillset is weaker than you think.
Reality check.