Re: perspective on rates

[beelia <beelia -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I worked there, and that range sounds right to me too.

Cisco has a lot of big tech pubs groups, and there wasn't a lot of turnover
when I was there. They do hire a lot of contractors, though, for a lot less
than what's posted.

Bee

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:

> This sounds about right to me.  Cisco is a Silicon
> Valley company (high salary/COL region), and
> they were probably hired at the height of the
> networking/telecom boom.
>
> The big question where Cisco is concerned is how
> many openings have they had lately (my guess is,
> not very many).
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
> > According to what's visible to people who haven't joined, six Senior
> > technical writers at Cisco earn between $78k and $105k, while a SINGLE
> > technical writer (not senior) earns between 82 and 89k.   Hmm.
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