How can this company expect to improve when engineers with average performance are promoted based on favoritism rather than ability or actual results? This is a recipe for disaster. Not only does it mean the wrong people are being advanced, but those who deserve promotions, and are better performers, will eventually leave for the competition.
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Do they have a secretary, I mean "project manager", to work on the "project"? Make an Excel spreadsheet or Powerpiont slideshow for the favorite connections?
This is particularly true in Cisco Lisbon. If you do not go to restaurant to eat lunch with Portuguese managers, the Portuguese managers will put you on PIP.
In delivery Neeraj only hire “yes men” who subservient that can visa revoke if not doing as told.
People hire people who will agree with them and not question them. It's the same in personal relationships that people end up labeling as toxic behavior. People just don't like to hear the truth if it means questioning them
It’s like this in so many other groups at Cisco too. Director-level hires based on relationships and not experience, knowledge, or expertise in the particular field. Some groups I’ve seen have inexperienced directors leading early in career teams. The blind leading the blind.
How can this company expect to improve when engineers with average performance...
I've asked both engineers and managers at all levels up to DE/VP what training they got from Cisco that was relevant to their job (a week of Java or Python training when you're only using C which static analysis shows you do not know doesn't count) and it's just blank stares in return. Many at all levels have been making the same mistakes for decades and both technical and managerial leadership resist any proposed change as they know the one true way, which means many with real talent will never be able to use it effectively.
What was that about insanity being doing the same thing and expecting different results? People have been complaining in house and in forums like this for ages with no effect. If being where you are now is the right thing for you, stick with it and best of luck. If it's not right for you, it's past time to make a positive change for yourself and best of luck.
Don’t worry they’ll be laid off with that shiny new title so enough. The more you make at Cisco and the higher your grade puts you at risk of LR.
Quit and join DOGE.