2 years out from my LR, and honestly, looking back, the place made Microsoft seem non-political. The backstabbings and inter-team fights were constant.
I've been in product design (UX) for a long time, and I've never seen a company that knew less about what to do with design than Cisco. Everyone complained about UX. But the product designers would never get a chance because an exec saw a shiny thing and we're all doing that. And then do 10% of it and ship it incomplete before the new shiny thing caught the exec's eye.
Half the designers were trying to fix things. The other half were making nice slides for execs to sound cool at Cisco Live. Guess which set of designers have been axed over the last three years.
And a special shoutout to Fletcher's design team leaders for being arrogant AND useless. What did you actually do? Because you clearly didn't. Enjoy being replaced by AI. At least the tokens will actually do work.