Good culture, but competent engineers can do better in the Boston area. - Software Engineer Corero Employee Review

3.0
Jan 8, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

* usually normal hours * interesting technology * above-average codebase quality * little to no bureaucracy * many competent engineers * great culture (no "brogrammers" nor suits; diverse staff)

Cons

* confused strategic direction * poor/nonexistent project management * overambitious ship dates * little to no guidance from product management * daily status meetings ("scrum" in name only) * pay well below industry average

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Dec 31, 2024
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Pros

I truly love most of the people I work with. There is a lot of knowledge on the Sales Engineer side. There are people who legitimately believe in the mission - they’re just not in charge.

Cons

I've had to edit this review 6 times to meet Glassdoor's requirements. Cons are a CEO who cares more about juicing the stock price than anything else, a CMO who just wants to play with AI and hire women with dark hair, and HR that doesn't follow up on complaints to the point that employees are afraid to communicate about one specific employee on Slack and only text on personal devices. Cisco might be able to employ so much dead weight to keep a C-Level happy, but Cisco also has a digit other than 0 before the decimal in its stock price.

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