Pros
Great location friendly coworkers great office free snacks happiness events and yearly offsite for engineering or marketing (Hawaii this year for marketing)
Cons
Pay is significantly below market rate and management won't even bother to counter market rate offers. The tech stack we're working with is getting old in the tooth and it's starting to show, with few plans to upgrade to anything even remotely modern. They've put in a new leveling structure and are starting to roll it out across the organization. However, there realistically are few if any options to actually get promoted. Most new hires are straight out of college and come here because they don't know what everyone else pays. Anyone experienced tends to come from somewhere else in Cisco. We're growing quickly, but almost all of that growth comes from our mature products. 2 out of the 3 new products that were released after the acquisition have had little to no market success. Management doesn't seem to care and staffs those teams with the most junior engineers. As a result, it's only a matter of time before those teams fail and people leave. Mentorship for junior staff doesn't exist. It's sink or swim in the sense that you need to figure it out yourself and if you don't, no one seems to care.