For me, working at Cisco was like reliving my childhood and early adulthood under toxic passive-aggressive parents.
This work culture is like a dysfunctional extended family that, for the most part, can't really stand each other. Constant threats that "the family" will be broken up. But until then, children, please work hard to make things work. We care about you. Right.
It's like parents telling their children, every six months, that the parents might divorce, so be ready kids. Then they don't after all, just to go through the same cycle every six months. It's not your fault, but you are along for the ride, so smile during birthday parties and family dinners with the relatives.
In the end, their eventually is the divorce, but it might take two or three years of this "all is well" fake cycle. During that time, the kids (in this case the general employee population) are left wondering why they themselves are causing the parents to talk about breaking up the family; so all sorts of over-compensating BS coping behaviors develop. Cisco's version of those coping behaviors are the leadership pushing all these community "causes" themes and projects on everyone. Smile kids, Mom and Dad love you; until they really don't want you around anymore.
Once I grew up twice, literally once after my parents divorce, and once after being the LR pawn, I have hopefully finally realized to keep away from being under the reign of passive-aggressive people attempting to control the lives of others.
They will destroy your soul if you let them.
Get away. Money and/or unhappiness is not worth it.