Today I was in a planning meeting for hiring on my team. I was told they were cutting half my reqs, I have to hire 3 people now. I was told I was not to hire males; and diversity numbers needed to be higher. My recruiter said she was weeding out... — read more 

You work for a tech dinosaur, once proud, now a woke husk of its former self. Leave already. Do it on your own terms or you will have it done to you. You can be pitcher or catcher...it's up to you.

Does anyone know for sure yet if people who were LR are still eligible to get an IPF? I have seen mixed answers.

Just heard from a reliable VP that they plan to layoff thousands at Impact. This is scary!

What happened to the C2E disaster

Anybody I talk to is looking for something else. Am I the only one who still sees a future here? What's going on?

Heard Cisco plans to buy? Any news?

Why are they hiring so many account managers? Seems a sure bet for an LR in 3-6 months during a recession. Makes no sense unless they are just trying to bring in new college grads to replace seasoned sales folks.

Check your workday if you are people manager. Just got reward budget for my team. Are we allowed to go over the merit, bonus, stock numbers? First time doing this and very disappointed looking at the numbers.

Some googler is really pushing it so hard, he WFH and puts in only 1hr. The rest of the time he spends it on his own startup. Now that's going to be my mission too here at Cisco. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/double-life-gen-z-google-120000669.html — read more 

OK, the great boondoggle has begun ! Let’s post ALL faux pas, insanity and hilarity right here !

The problem good earnings and a rising stock price is leadership forgets how horribly we treated the laid off employees that helped us make those numbers. The numbers are clearly more important to leadership than the people.

No question, in good old days, Cisco has loaded way too many people. Some of them are incompetent plus some lack of work ethics. If management can get rid off these people, others' morale will be actually boosted. However, this seems NOT what... — read more 

as they never acquired new skills other than office politicking and backstabbing, which has been plaguing the company and affecting truly talented ppl. Finally time has come :)

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/cisco-commitment-dei-helped-keep-130000970.html hmmm, read that and put down you comments. spoiler alert: bologna sandwich

Security Sales was flat Q/Q while Cisco had a record quarter. Let that sink in. In Q3 it was only 2% growth. In Q4 no growth. Seriously, even the weakest security competitors are growing. This is all due to the disastrous decisions that EC... — read more 

Best year in decades. Best quarter in years. Where are the layoffs?

The positive spin in the earnings call about "Restructuring" made me sick, like it was a good thing. It could have been if Cisco had not laid us off when there were so jobs available. HR was working to a timeline, not to really find us a role. The... — read more 

Time to resign Chuck!!

For those of us that are LR, can someone let us know what they say about the end of year bonus and CPF is?? Thank you!

Why are people panicking? The company is doing well. The stock is at its 52-week high and it'll continue climbing. There's no reason to believe that results will be as disastrous as some are painting them out to be. I think some people just like to... — read more 

Friends, the bad news is less than 24hrs away. Cisco will announce a massive layoff like never been seen before. The Q4 numbers look very miserable. To keep investors happy, Cisco will take "some tough medicine". You will get your 1:1 invite before... — read more 

More than 227,000 global tech workers have lost their jobs so far this year More than 900 tech companies have made layoffs in 2023, according to the website Layoffs.fyi... — read more 

Are there any recent layoffs in San Jose in the 5G group who works on PCRE and stuff like that?

https://americanbusinesshistory.org/americas-most-valuable-companies-1995-2023/

Does anyone have any info about the upcoming rewards program? My raise last year was cr-p, and I’m sure Cisco has more leverage now with the current market conditions. 😃

I've received little to no clarity on what steps I should take since being LR'd, and have been ghosted by my team when I tried asking them for guidance. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you!

With all the LRs Is it best to just sell vested RSUs ? It doesn't seem like the stock is going to get any better.

I wonder how many heads were chopped. Any ideas?

Announced today to the GES product sales specialist teams— reorganization based on industry vertical. Also one small team per East/West region focused on Premier accounts. No longer are the days of geo-based account coverage. 18 more PSS to be hired... — read more 

Besides being a stupid name and a boondoggle, can anyone tell me what the point of Impact is?

I don't think Cisco's ELT and senior leader ship understand the word transparent. They try to convey that they have "thoughts, feelings, or motives that are easily perceived". When things are transparent, things behind should be distinctly... — read more 

Embarrassing to watch the GSSO SLT confirm last Thursday what many already know, they have no clue. There are no specialists for you to be able to compete anymore. Cisco S-xure Access and XDR and no one to go deep since there will be no... — read more 

It's making me a bit nervous.

No offense to anyone but do you also observe that there are a ton of people who are just here and slow things down more than contribute to it?

Some told that Cisco doesn't have competing eco system. Below are the results: CSCO: $53B vs PANW: $6B ANET: $6B JNPR: $5B ZS: $2B FTNT: $4B MISC: $7B Total Competition grabbed $30B from Cisco, it is not going to be late to grab the rest of the... — read more 

Is anyone else LR ready to sign this damn package and leave? sitting here waiting is miserable

Update: Investigation commences this week. Yes, it takes time to get such set up. Hopefully I'll be able to post an official email contact. In the meantime, collect evidence of EEOC, ADA, age discrimination and so forth. Concrete evidence is best... — read more 

Atleast 5% of heads are impacted starting Q2. If you're in SBG, Sales, Collab and under MM - Mostly in California might as well plan an exit. Chuck will share more info 08/16 1400 PST.