Completed 3 years at Cisco this month as a Hardware Engineer, joined straight out of a tier-2 college in 2021.
Over my 3 years, what I've learnt is that Cisco is just riding on the monopoly it has in the networking space. There's basically no innovation when it comes to Router hardware, and we basically reuse existing designs, packaging them as "newer and better" products. No risk, no Ishq 🙁
There's absolutely zero investment in R&D, and any new feature that gets added to the products only comes in after one of the competitors launches them, keeping Cisco behind in the game.
If Cisco keeps going like this, I'm sure the likes of Arista and Juniper will over us in the next couple of years, even with the new "Silicon One" that Cisco's promoting.
PS: I can only speak from a Hardware PoV, and I'm not quite updated with what's going on with Cisco's SW offerings.
At least Cisco is not patent trolling on the scale of Oracle. But as an industry giant Cisco is always playing catch and mouse game with competitors.
Giants like Cisco don’t bet on innovation actually.
They bet on timely acquisitions.
Cisco has great sales team and they know which acquisitions will affect their sales. Certain startup products add overall value to their offerings which just might be the thing a customer would prefer.
And even Juniper is in middle of acquisition by HP.
I remember how Cisco leadership always boast about their reserve funds.
Chuck has been desperate to transition Cisco to a software company for so many years now. Let’s see.
Check with your seniors whom you trust, many patents are being filled from cisco India, maybe you are not getting right opportunity to showcase your talent
What's going on in semiconductor division, they bought acacia
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As it goes for any company acquisition, Juniper folks should be wary of massive layoffs coming their way.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/01/09/hpe-to-buy-juniper-networks-in-14-billion-all-cash-deal.html
