Why is it so hard for managers to figure out who belongs where? Some folks get way too much credit, while others are barely noticed. It’s frustrating to watch talent go unrecognized and underutilized when the right fit could make all the difference.
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Found out I was a backup for someone who always had a family emergency or volunteering or vacation yet I was LRD.
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It’s due to so many engineers from same country.
Considering Cisco's code has been garbage for more than 30 years you must be covering up for the US which later branched out and trained teams in other countries in its own image.
There are other companies that use techniques like CMM to be able to deliver reliably and consistently, but Cisco has successfully avoided any such processes and when they hire people who know what it takes for a team to deliver they're shut down at every turn. As a US based company it chose to build Cisco to be exactly what it is.
It's human nature to value appearances and confidence over competence, in part because so few know what competence is. Successful companies need to be extremely careful not to hire anyone who has this trait as once embedded in a corporate culture it's extremely difficult to get out.
It’s due to so many engineers from same country. And the evaluation of managers’ performance is too loose.
A lot of nepotism everywhere in the company.
Cisco is a relationship based, not performance based company
Many unsung heroes while others taking all the credit.
This is the biggest problem in overlay sales team and within the CX
At most companies as a manager someone above you gives you a project and whatever bodies are not currently producing other goods and services are assigned to you. Most managers have no training. If they came up through the technical ranks they likely lack interpersonal skills and jumped to the management ladder because they know they don't have the technical chops to keep climbing the technical ladder. That's not a recipe for competently managed work.
Recognition what is that ? This is the only company where some of them don’t even have basic qualifications required to perform the job . THE only qualification required to survive and grow is being yes man .All the time and effort goes on watching back, surviving .Nothing good or productive ever comes out of it, I look back and see years wasted due to one bad career move.
Because the name of the game is self-preservation above all, and that includes managerial roles.
Dog eat dog environment. If you would like to be appreciated for your efforts, look for a small start up company to work for.