Way Too Much Management Nonsense
Pros
•Working with some very sought-after technologies eg APIC, SD-WAN •A good mix of vendors •Follow-The-Sun means you are very unlikely to be working past your time •Looks great on CV •Work within more specialist roles such as the Architecture teams seems a lot of fun and very rewarding
Cons
•Very narrow scope of work, ie purely Routing and Switching, no access to FWs, DNS or DOMs •Endless meetings! Every other week you are expected to explain every global incident to a non-technical, management who insist YOU in essence do their admin work for them. This obviously cuts into the amount of time you are actually on the tools, meaning your ability to learn is impacted by the constant disruption of having to enter an online meeting with either mgmt, your local team or your global team. On many days, almost all my time was eaten up by meetings. • Uncompetitive salary • Local mgmt might as well be non-existent as they will not help you with any aspect of your job or career. Even getting things such a travel expensed signed off was a mission in itself as nobody would assume responsibility • Big bias towards the US. The team is roughly 3 times the size of EMEA, but this does not correlate to the amount of sites/PoPs managed. Almost all MGMT are based there. Often ill-equipped in terms of ability.
