Perhaps it's just me or maybe just the ones I'm dealing with. But not one recruiter I've ever dealt with at Cisco nor hiring managers shows any dececency at all during the process. Why ghost when you can spend about 5 seconds sending even a form... — read more 

Well that was a dud. So all they’re doing is making use cases so we can sell “solutions” to them, which are really just our existing products, sold the way they’ve always been sold.

Is it happening this week or next month??

Thoughts on Lisa Pintner's mental health awareness meeting today? She was Ill equipped to run it imo being so close in time to a mental issue herself as shared. The person who leads this needs have gone through all the s,&t we have arrived on the... — read more 

What you guys feel?

I have recently received several complaints from my direct report regarding the current ISE engagement. It seems that the engagement has been quite counterproductive. The product in question has been divided among multiple teams, namely EN and GSSO... — read more 

What I've observed: Cisco tends to lay off the older, highly skilled and motivated support staff, sales, engineers and internal staff. Obviously this eventually affects customers. Many of those laid off land at corps that use Cisco products... — read more 

Analysts are smart and are not buying the FUD that CR is throwing their way

My entire team just got 15 minute Webex invites for tomorrow! Get out while you can before this place stabs you in the back!!!!!

The latest NPS scores have been published for Q3, not really any positive figures apart from one or two regions. Worryingly US Commercial, GES, Americas SP (probably AMER’s strongest areas for historical revenue?), UK&I and Germany(probably EMEA’s... — read more 

Why did they cancel nexus cloud as a product? This was supposed to be our new saas controller for data center networking. Now we have nothing. Everybody was very excited about this now we are all looking at arista.

Orders are down just under 30%.

I'm starting to see more deals lost to competition than ever before - more than I have ever seen. Seems like some kind of negative inflection point for Cisco.

How did CR get the job?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pRlYMp98qhk

If we the LR severance package, when can we get payments from Unemployment in Texas? I've asked, but still waiting on a response. I also keep reading conflicting information.

Which offices are next? did they really close the Edison NJ office?? why even bother anymore

This seems like a holdover from the old days of just selling routers and switches. Specialist engineers got added for each AT, eventually even EN itself. So what is the purpose of portfolio engineers?

Cisco isn't going to follow M$'s lead, because Cisco is the greatest company to work for!... — read more 

On May 17th, when earnings are announced, there will be another significant round of layoffs. More info to follow.

How will Cisco top that under the current “macroeconomic conditions?”

Massive outages caused by id--ts not paying attention in Víptela BU and the certificates expired on all Vedge devices. How do you not see something like this coming that’s completely avoidable? Current work around is “don’t reboot your devices” haha... — read more 

Aren't we late into the XDR market which is already dominated by Microsoft and Google ? along with others like Exbeam, Artic Wolf, Crowd Stike, Palo Alto etc. How are goiing to sell this to replace a free SecureX with paid XDR ? in my team everyone... — read more 

Mainly consolidation from multiple groups. I know market is tough now

whoever said fake news should come back here after 5-17!

I heard that meraki account teams are getting pooled.

I didn't like Cisco. My manager (1st time being a manager), was always late to our 1:1's. So I started to track it. On average, he was 7 minutes late over the year. He was also very good at screaming on the phone.

There’s been a real urgency to get the Transformation org up and running. Cisco don’t normally make such big changes until the start of the financial year - it’s as if the ELT have seen some information that has made them take quick emergency action... — read more 

AppD's performance across geo's is not looking good at the moment. Do you think Cisco will sell AppD after the FY end?

Remember when you didn’t get real salary raises that bear inflation for 5 years? Well a few employees did! Compensation by year: Chuck Robbins: 2020: 23.1M 2021: 25.4M (+9.9%) 2022: 29.3M (+15.4%) V2Momma aka Maria Martinez 2020: 8.2M ... — read more 

How much did this bring your own pronoun to work cost? Does this make our packets move faster?

Is there any group in LinkedIn for cisco haters?

What is great here? Did he conceive any new product ideas that has market cap of atleast $1B. Just for transitioning, he also endorsed another stupid for making upper management happy, that a$$hole bitched a lot about co workers and others while... — read more 

Anyone knows why there is an announce to have a "Partner VP" in GSSO? Partner related activities are handled under OT so far. Seems like MM change the TAC model, are they changing the Partner model ? any idea ?

Apparently the last one wasn't enough.

Why are they closing this?? crazy

Planning has begun to allow to live day 1 of FY24. SEs are being assigned specialties based on SEER. So if you want to influence which part of the call center you are in, update SEER and speak to your manager about your interests.

All I know is that under no circumstances would I want to be one of those long-term employees who are stuck here. Why are there so many of them? I guess the reason is that they believed in improvements here.

any comment on the future of the campus?