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- vote Cisco Meraki Offer Review 210k base 100k stocks/year 15% bonus Good or bad? Current tc: 🥜 Yoe : 8 Location : Bay Area Level : G10 (negotiate for G11 possible?)
- Cisco G12 offer review Asking for a friend coming from a non-tech company. Remote role, non-Bay Area location (Zone 2). Do these numbers look in line for a G12 senior engineering manager role? $220k base 25% bonus $180k/4 RSU Signing bonus TBD TC: $320k recurring Looking at levels.fyi, the base looks competitive but the
- CISCO Salary review Can you please review the following compensation from Cisco (Seattle, WA). The recruiter said that there is no RSU allocated for this level. Any negotiation suggestions ? Base = 130K Cash Bonus = 8% of Base Sign On Bonus = 20K YOE = 4 plus years Position : Software Engineer 2 (Grade level 006) #sa
- Cisco Salary Review Need review for current offer for a Software Engineer position at Cisco. Location: San Jose. Title : Software Engineer. Level: 008. Base : 125k RSU: None. Bonus: 12%. Sign on : 20k. LOE: Masters Degree in Computer Science + 4 yrs. Please let me know how this can be improved. Want to reach ou
- Ex-Cisco Manager review Can someone tell me how do I get the review of an ex-Cisco manager? Is there any internal portal available? I need to know about the background of the manager. TC: 0 #cisco
- Cisco Meraki team review Folks at cisco meraki..any idea about how the work and culture is in the config team?#tech #london
- Cisco DNA team review . How’s Cisco DNA(digital network architecture) team in terms of work culture and growth?
- Cisco Aci group review Hows cisco aci group is doing overall? Is there chance to learn new technologies from sw developer perspectives.. i am.not from n/w background. Hows bonus, increment and stability looks like..
- Cisco offer review - PM Hey guys, got a PM offer from Cisco and would like to pick your brains on how good it is in respect with experience and location. YOE: 5+ , MBA grad Level offered: PM level 11 Salary: $160k base Bonus: 15% RSU: $70k vested over 4 yrs Basically: ~$201k total package. Location Austin, TX.#pm #prod
- Cisco DS offer review Data Science in customer experience group 140k base + 8% target bonus 30k sign on Grade 6 Location: San Jose Changing careers, but 5 YOE in consulting, 0 tech Masters in Civil Engineering Masters in CS (recent) Any comment/opinion on these figures would be much appreciated!
- Cisco Webex Product Manager Role Review Might get an offer for PM in the Cisco Webex team. How is the PM culture in the webex org? Would really appreciate any insights here.#pm #product #productmanager #tech
- Need unbiased review for AppDynamics company (Cisco subsidiary) in 2021 Can anyone provide an honest review for AppDynamics. I have recently started seeing a lot of bad reviews regarding the "company not doing so hot". How is the product doing in the market? How is the career growth? Is the company on a downwards path? Also will this effect a new graduate joining the c
- Any blinders willing to review my resume and mock interview me? I'd like to get out of Cisco Enjoying my time at Cisco but I want to get out and have more exciting work. I'm struggling to land interviews, and not the best leet coder. Would love my resume to be reviewed and get mock interviewed. Thanks TC 110k YOE 2
- Stay back in Cisco or move to Zscaler/Microsoft I have offers like following. A)Zscaler 165k base, total 225k B)Cisco CNBG BU, 165k base total 240k, counter offer C)Microsoft Azure networking, 170k base, total 250k, this one is permanent remote, and I will be only person in Bay Area and SEii, Saw bad reviews about WLB YoE 8, current role g
- Seems like Cisco has a bad rep... Wanted to know whether all the Blind reviews were an accurate depiction of what's going on...Anyone happy at Cisco? If you are can you explain what's been great over there?
- Any Cisco employee help me? Title+ my brother applied for new grad software engineer position in November, and still waiting for #cisco reply, application status is under review for over a month, can any Cisco employee help me with this status? Thanks TC 38lpa Brother TC 0 new grad #tech
- Tech Company Ratings (NEW on Blind) — Ouch Amazon! [updated scores Aug 11] Only working for Crazy Elon is worse than Amazon apparently. Are *your* company results accurate? And what’s with Amazon? 4.5 Square (19) 4.4 LinkedIn (75) 4.4 Dropbox (29) 4.3 Google (156) 4.3 Facebook (127) 4.3 Salesforce (66) 4.2 Apple (73) 4.1 Adobe (41) 4.1 Shopify (7) 4.0 Twitter (
- AppDynamics pre sales engineer hows the company culture? glassdoor reviews are overall good, but looks like after Cisco, its no longer same and lot of people left the company, as per glassdoor recent reviews I saw. tc- 310k yoe - 15
- Cisco offer Received an offer from Cisco, was reviewing others here and the all reference G8 - G13 but mine indicates Grade Level 089, any ideas what that is? It a Principal Engineer role.
- Cisco Job Req So I applied for a req at Cisco with a referral and then the job req got taken off the Cisco careers site. Then I received an automated email asking me to complete an “Online Form” for that specific req. The status on my application went from “In Process” to “Under Review” but now the same job req i
- link Cisco to Linkedin level mapping Looking at levels.fyi Cisco Principal Engineer maps to Linkedin Sr Staff, but also partly Linkedin Principal Staff (which has no data). When talking to the recruiter is it valid to push for Principal as a Cisco PE or are there processes that prevent that from happening as a new hire like a Principal
- Cisco RTP Salary Can you please review the following compensation from Cisco RTP (Raleigh, NC). Is this good ? I am currently in Bay Area, and moving to NC. Base = 166K Cash Bonus = 15% of Base RSU = 90K/4 years Sign On Bonus = 30K YOE = 11.5 years Position : Senior Verification Engineer
- PM at Meraki How is the Product Management and leadership team in Cisco Meraki and overall company culture? I saw some horrible reviews in Glassdoor for the sales team though. What can be the expected TC for a senior PM?
- Cisco Interview Process - New Grad How long is the Cisco hiring process I applied in Sep 21, I got a mail in Feb 22 regarding interviews, got a confirmation 4 weeks later in March that you are still in consideration with few other candidates and we will roll out decision in few weeks on cisco portal status changed from Applied>In
- Cisco Meraki Hey all, a recruiter reached out to me from Cisco Meraki and I was wondering what it is like working there. I saw mixed reviews on Glassdoor and was wondering what are the benefits? perks? any pros and cons with the company I want all the dirt!
- Microsoft offer COSINE Org Should I accept the offer? 2 YOE G6 at Cisco(San Jose) Current TC: Base - $127k RSU - $80K over 4 years (10K vested) Microsoft final offer: Grade - 61(SD2) Base - $134k RSU - $100k Signon - $35k Relocation - $6k On blind I have read bad reviews about COSINE. #swe #software #microsoft
- Company with high quality software engineering process? it turns out my team at Cisco does not have high expectation about software engineering process. Can someone recommend a company in the Bay that has high quality software engineering practices? - Thoughtful code construction. - Detailed design docs. - Thorough UTs. - Constructively aggressive feed
- vote Competing offers Keeping it simple. I have 3 offers in hand. Please help me pick the best one. My priorities: 1. Technology 2. Better WLB 3. Job security 4. Growth opportunities Current TC: 170K YOE: 6 Cisco is currently remote. Both Equinix and Shippo are fully remote. Since polls can’t be edited, following a
- Harness.io has very inconsistent rating in Blind vs Glassdoor Got contacted by a Harness io recruiter. Looks like their founder had big success on his previous company—- AppDynamic which was sold to Cisco for 3.7B. However, when I searched the reviews on Blind and Glassdoor, it is like day and night. Everyone on Glassdoor thinks it is an amazing company and fi
- Are BU's impacted by Cisco layoffs? I'm getting a Duo Security offer that's gonna be a significantly vital career move for me, especially with the IaC tech stack I'll be working with and exposed to. Fully remote, and TC seems to be satisfactory considering my current TC after 4.5 years. However I've been reading Cisco reviews on glas
- Cisco vs Startups Working at Cisco, located in the eastcoast (DC), grade 6 with base salary around 89k. This is pretty shitty to begin with because i have 5yoe and had excellent performance reviews every year. And I was told I would get a promotion in the upcoming month, but even with the promotion to grade 8, its go
- Please review my resume? Not getting calls. Please help Applied to many places, getting calls from India (VMWARE/Cisco/Inmobi/Goldman etc), but I'm not getting calls from good companies in Europe or Canada or even Tier 1 in India. Delivery Hero/Pipedrive/Algolia instantly rejected me in 2 days. No response from Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, Amazon, Morgan S
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- link Need Referrals | India Hello everyone I am a software engineer with 1YOE. I am good in problem solving and solved around 850 problems on leetcode. YOE: 1 year Current TC - 15LPA Currently holding an offer from NetApp (Please review if it is a good company to join) #referral #india #Walmart #Google #Amazon #Microsoft #T
- How long does it take for law firm to file for H1B transfer? Accepted the offer and submitted the documents more than a week ago and there is no response from the law firm whether H1B transfer is filed or not. Read reviews about this lawfirm as well and saw very bad reviews from Google employees as well. I went through the same problems with another law firm
- Transition from Engineering to Product Management Hey Everyone, I am Trying to make a switch from my Data Engineer/ Business intelligence role to Product Management. I even completed my certification from Product school. #productmanager. I have a total of 7.5 years experience in the financial industry. I also have around 6 months of experience in
- Looking for mentor Product Management Hi All, I'm looking for a mentor as I want to grow my career and possibly new opportunities as a product manager. Would anyone like to mentor me for interview prep and resume reviews? Thanks and Regards. #pm #product #productmanager #techcareer #paypal #zoom #adobe #fb #netflix #netflixhiring #lin
- vote Can't Decide Where to Work Based off What People Say Here? I've been reading in blind for a while now and heard that people hate it at the following companies: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, auth0, Dropbox, okta, capital one, jp Morgan, Cisco, Netflix, twilio, Disney, roku, Adobe, indeed, Nvidia, eBay, Intel, amd, LinkedIn, PayPal, Uber, lyft
- vote Join Cisco for full time and apply off campus or sit for placements ? In my college, If we accept ppo, we cannot sit for placements. What is review of Cisco Bangalore ? How easy it is to get off campus interview in companies like Uber, Nutanix, Atlassian, Microsoft (these are example of companies come to our college for placements) ? My level of preparation for plac
- vote NVIDIA internship or Expedia SDE Hi Blind, I am graduating from a top 20 university within 2 years and have 2 choices. - NVIDIA is offering a 6 month internship in the AI/ML division and seems to have stellar reviews on blind and glassdoor. - Expedia is offering a full time return SDE 1 offer at 138K/year starting this month whi
- Offer evaluation Cisco Role- Software engineer IV Total comp- 207K Team- Have heard good reviews about the team. Non-networking team Amazon Role- SDE1 Total comp- 175K Team- AWS I wasn't told I was being interviewed for SDE1 role at the time of interview. I assumed all along that it was for SDE2 considering my YOE
- SRE offer at Duo Security, Advise please After a rich/wonderful 5 years at my company, it's time I transitioned to another role/company to diversify and expand my skills in more relevant technologies today. To clarify I've built our existing Microsoft SQL server analysis services team from scratch and implemented s ton of backend automatio
- Junior SWE seeking referrals!! Hi Blind, I’m currently searching for a new SWE role in the NYC area, and have been having trouble getting responses from cold applying with my resume despite positive feedback from Rooftopslushie resume reviews. I guess the market is still not that great for junior engineers at the moment :( I’m
- On my Path to FI(RE) I wish to be financially independent and been working on it. Please review and comment - living/working in bay area from 2006. - Married for 8 years. No kids. But we might adopt after we move back to India ( target 2022) - Living in Bay area. Bought brand new house for 900k. Probably worth 1.3 n
- Manager undermines me I have started working for Cisco 12months ago. My manager keeps letting me do low unimportant tasks even when I proactively request to take up important ones. I feel that he doesn't think I can handle the responsibilities. Talked to him about this and he treats me like I don't know how it works. Ju
- Cisco WTF Wtf is happening with Cisco? I completed their new grad OA literally THREE MONTHS AGO and my status still says “under review”. What a joke. Is it because they’ve been having problems?? Just getting sick and tired of getting a perfect OA (passing all test cases) and then getting ghosted. What am I s
- Why is amazon such a shitty company? I have worked in companies like cisco, microsoft and now in amazon , it has been almost one year i have been working here, i am already frustrated and on my way to leave this shit, The main difference that i found in amazon and my previous companies is 1. Mentorship: In amazon mentor is just for a
- Blind sentiment about issues at FAANG Spending about 2 weeks on blind for the first time, this is what I've gathered from most posts about the common issues in Faang companies. Would like to get a more clearer picture about how the market is right now FACEBOOK - Perm processing held up due to lawsuits AMAZON - Pip culture and terribl
- link [India Only]: Need System Design Mock Interview? I’ve been a bar raiser in my previous company and have conducted 200+ mock system design interviews for the blind community over the last couple of years. I work in the US but I’m currently in the IST time zone for a couple of months. I finally got some free time for the next 12 weeks, so doing thi
- 330% TC bump in 3 years - grateful to this community TL;DR - My TC went from 160K to 688K in 3 years and this is my journey. I am grateful of this community to provide me motivation and help me prepare for my interviews to find the right roles & compensation related to my experience/skills. I want to share my journey to help motivate someone else who
- vote Feel like a tool =( .Need some career advice girls/guys. @fang @meraki @cisco What should an IC know before applying? From asking around. Cisco has a back end monolith that's being slowly transitioned to cloud. Meraki seems to have pretty good engineers. Everything new is cloud monitoring related. Engineering driven deadlines. Long tenure. Tc 20% lower than fang. Maybe a bit slower career growth than fang. Anythi