The managers from the top level have created a toxic work culture. Starting from judging interview candidates based on their degree to asking employees to get up to speed on work while they are on vacation. Have seen so many instances of bad managers here. The last one I had basically given me a mental breakdown. I literally started disliking my work, team and 1:1s.
-Comparing with other coworkers about the number of deliverables
-Creating an environment where asking questions means you are stupid and waste other people time
-Not encouraging transparent and open communication between the team in the name of people being uncomfortable saying out loud about what they feel.
-If you are not outspoken and don't blabber in every meeting you don't have an opinion and so you don't know much. In fact, it is advised by managers that if you don't have anything to say repeat what others have said, just to show that u have an opinion as well.
-Setting up vague and unreasonable expectations like "build your brand in the team" or "make the team feel you are important enough to be part of their meetings". Why do I need to prove something to be called into a meeting!
-No incentive to participate in hackathons. They just have a dumb medal that they pass along to the winner each year.
-WLB is just a term some execs throw a lot but u won't find it on day to day basis
-Diversity and inclusion are just words top-level managers talk about to sound cool but when it comes to implementing it at the base level they don't care. Just screaming about how proud you are of your women engineers doesn't mean anything if you can't hire or retain them. Terrible in terms of diversity. In fact, one of the worst considering that they are a part of cisco.
Stay away if you like to work in a healthy atmosphere.
