Comment Re:Cisco is a very unique company... (Score 5, Insightful) 139
I agree with what you are saying but I think it has more to do with the nature of what Cisco does and it's unique technology that helps it retain acquired employees.
If you work in R&D of networking equipment you have a very very limited job market place.
So the options to move on somewhere new, once Cisco has acquired you, are very limited.
Unless you move into another technology area, which isn't imbedded software and networking devices, that can be a big leap
I know as I made that leap and it wasn't easy (former Cisco employee 1994-2006).
The problem Cisco has is that the router has gone from being the building block of an industrial revolution to a mass produce product.
The router is now a commodity.
Given the Snowdon revelations about the NSA would you buy USA made networking equipment to carry your data if you were Asian or European?
That's why Huawei was born.
The US national security initiatives (or paranoia's) are doing most of the harm to US technology companies global growth.