Vantaggi
With ironport you have a great deal to look back to. A brilliant history. That was the reason i joined this bussiness unit out of my grad school.
Svantaggi
Past is past, now this segment functions like just another cisco BU. I joined this unit in 2011 out of my grad school because i wanted to be a part of it (though it had been gobbled up by cisco till then) and frankly i have been disappointed. There is not enough work for people like us and no features are rolling out. The entire development cycle has become so process oriented that you loose interest in the way things progress. Also, instead of focusing on work, people are more interested in office politics Any one gets in these days and there are not enough talented people around. Frankly speaking sometimes i feel disheartened when i see people taking so many tea breaks and just chatting there time at work. But the biggest problem is meetings...!!! Seems like that is all what is done here. There are atleast 2-3 hours of meetings every alternate day and people discuss all crappy stuff there. I myself do not even see the point in most of these meetings but then if you frankly tell this to the management you end up in soup. It pains me to think that CISCO such a giant in networking has come to this and has brought all the acquisition`s which function inside it to the same rut. I have decided to quit this BU and move to a start up where i can atleast do some meaningful work.