Network Data Systems Employee Reviews for Principal Consultant

"NDS lacks the hipness of "social media" or "mobile e-commerce" or "web 2.0" despite the recruiting pitch. During the recruiting to the onboarding process I was never told about the business risk NDS faces as they are over reliant on one key company for two thirds of their annual revenue. I found this out in casual conversation shortly after joining last year. Corporate-level management suffers from "business myopia", a misplaced sense of entitlement, and behaves as an insular group. I was hired to build new business opportunities involving non-Cisco product and develop a practice but found it near impossible as the aforementioned myopia significantly handicaps anything outside of staff augmentation or Cisco Unified Communications work. Cisco has done a terrific job of institutionalizing NDS to their product portfolio. Mid-level management support ranges from a "too busy for you" attitude in the Schaumburg corporate office to a "greedy, self-promoting, and tactless" attitude in the Cincinnati remote office. Trying to maintain a technical skillset is challenging as resources are assigned using availability as the primary factor. Being dropped into a situation where your technical experience does not align occurs with some frequency."