I'm glad when someone gets a chance to work, learn new things, gain experience, etc. However, at one point at Cisco I became surrounded by a lot of new people who do not know their job and are not motivated to learn it either. In some ways, it was very demoralizing for me. Given that bad hiring practices are very costly for the company, isn't it surprising how many wrong hiring decisions are being made here?
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No.
When your Directors want you to read millions of lines of code expecting that a race condition because of random memory corruption which leaves behind zero diagnostic information that only occurs on average once every few decades on a single box will magically reveal itself (most Cisco engineers don’t know how frequent this becomes as the customer accumulates thousands of boxes) and Principal Engineers can’t describe “requirements design code” as far as “what how product” (bonus points to those that recognize Scrum as two week Waterfall cycles where marketeers do your requirements and preliminary design) your leadership is profoundly incompetent.
With Cisco’s margins there is zero incentive to actually improve.