How can so called Americas Sales Executives call the worst play ever in the history of Sales by mandating an internal enablement on the start of March Madness. It does not matter the industry or what you are selling, this is embarrassing. This is a... — read more 

This occurred: Impacted individual was told by the hiring manager that he was ready to give him an offer. They discussed and the hiring manager then told him that he could not make an offer after all because he was being pressured to bring in... — read more 

Sorry for the WTO folks. It's over. I heard that most open positions are on hold long enough for y'all to be gone. What a horrible thing for leadership to do. They kept out that bait so that you would train your replacement. Shameful. These... — read more 

IS it true?

AppD not performing revenue wise AppD Cloud is behind competitions

For the last few months, every time I open up my linkedin page there is always a sad story of some H1B worker who got laid off with a nice family picture begging people to find them a job so that they can stay in the U.S. First of all, I do... — read more 

We need a real Sales VP and Engineering VP. They have shown their complete incompetence again. Everyone knows that the NCAA tournament begins on March 16th. Leave it to these two to plan a “Game Day” Training Series with a football field as the... — read more 

Anyone here got the shaft last week? Or are you still waiting for the VP to get his act together? This stress from the fear of the unknown for the last 5 months is beginning to get to my system. Why does it so long for the UK management to figure get... — read more 

I see a lot of complaining about management and I'm curious what percentage of the people here have ever had to do it themselves. Since counting the few who say they do without an accurate count of those who don't is useless I'm curious if there is... — read more 

Esther Crawford. Muskaholic, fangirl, dedicating her life to any folly her supreme leader would scheme. Well, she got laid off. Let this be a lesson in cynicism. The corporate world doesn't care about individuals, it's here to generate more wealth... — read more 

I have seen "Yes" Men rise up the ranks faster than people who question Management . do employees question Management ? do Managers like obedient employees who just follow orders ? do you foster Growth and innovation by just following orders ?... — read more 

While Cisco is hopeful, even enthusiastic, about nosism becoming commonplace, I find myself experiencing profound doubts about its benefits. More precisely, the devastating ramifications of widespread nosism make me wonder if it isn’t simply the case... — read more 

Got a notification on this and saw increment in work profile. Is this for people getting really low pay? Can I sue Cisco?

Only issue is that Cisco 's management (starting from first line managers to all the way vps), don't agree with it. This is unlike Juniper, where the management agrees that it is not a great place (in otherwords, stupid place). This makes employees... — read more 

Can anyone explain to me why sales managers, senior managers, directors and VPs all have so few reports? Seems like the company could save a lot of money by consolidating these highly paid but no value bringing people.

Hello! Can I expect stock refreshers for g8 ? If yes, how to and when ?

Have the proof for Age Discrimination now. Concrete.

Someone shared with me their layoff package and it isn't too bad. What sucks is they are basically saying we'll pay you a few months of pay to keep your mouth shut (especially those over 40). Cisco layers are among the best in the industry at... — read more 

Cisco is raking in huge profits, but at what cost? The company is handing out pink slips to the very employees who helped build this success story. They've even dubbed this ruthless practice as "workforce transition options" to make it sound less... — read more 

Are we a networking company , collab , security etc or all in one combo ? Every year I keep hearing different theme words . This year it’s agile . What does agile networks mean ? Same for internet of future ? Seem to be more of buzz words . Can... — read more 

Surprisingly, Cisco claims to favor the teaching of critical thinking in schools. You should beware of such claims from it, though. To Cisco, critical thinking is a code word for correct thinking where correct means pro-Satanism. In my opinion, it... — read more 

July 1 the lights go out

just came back from a vacation two weeks ago after getting notified in December. As I start looking for jobs on the internal job board, there isn't that many positions as I thought it would be. But so far every job I applied ended with a... — read more 

Can anyone suggest what are all the startups that are hiring or atleast will hire in future, that can disrupt cisco in any of cisco's domain. I want to jojn the forces and democratize cisco's dominance.

Is it just me or people at the top hire only their buddies / connections ? CIO gets hired from IBM and he brings his/her buddies from there while the rest of the Individual contributors keep struggling for a job via traditional job portals while... — read more 

It is too much management and customer centric culture, i worked with many other companies including juniper networks. Culture is employee centric, meidum size management centric and performance and ratings are not much involved.

I have colleagues who will always say that Cisco has a strong emphasis on encouraging employees to continuously seek and apply new skills, but I no longer consider this a learning culture. You? Unfortunately, I feel that I'm wasting my time here and... — read more 

Opportunity for Cisco to cut costs. Lots of desperate H1-B visa Sw developers available in market from Google, Amazon, Meta etc. Well trained and very motivated and lot less expensive.

Is it me or do people really like to ignore teammates at this Company? There's people who simply won't acknowledge any calls, emails, or Webex messages. I'll fight for a customer's attention, a parter's to an extent, but I shouldn't have to... — read more 

It is interesting that staying here for many years used to be seen as a reflection of loyalty and something praiseworthy, but nowadays it's become almost something to be ashamed of. How did that happen? Neither the company nor other employees... — read more 

Taking Bonus from 25 to 18% and they saying look at how much you are paid is completely disingenuous. Why were grade 12s penalized more than any other group?

Should fall on the CxO, hordes of Directors, VPs and managers. These guys do not add anything to the revenue generation process. As ex-Googler Praveen writes: "The recent layoffs should perhaps have focused more on managers and directors and VPs,"... — read more 

Been 2 years. It's a big company, but never have I felt this lonely before. Unlike other tech companies I previously worked, employees at Cisco are so cold, evasive, unfriendly. I of course know that a company is not a place to make friends, but I... — read more 

The sooner you realize leadership isn't really looking out for anyone except themselves, the happier you will be. Doesn't matter what company it is. People have had it for companies that don't look out for their workers. No where is safe. The sooner... — read more 

Just for fun I took a look at the Palo Alto Networks layoff page. It looks the same as this page. Not judging just find it interesting.

question : if the numbers and quarter is so great , why did we push out 4 k people for rebalancing ? we keep building a submissive culture where only "Yes" men are rewarded ?

Evening everyone, I am thrilled to let you know that with these results, eligible employees (Director level and below) will receive their payout of their Mid-Year Advance. As a reminder, this is 50 percent of the total target bonus. For more... — read more 

Fantastic https://www.barrons.com/amp/articles/cisco-earnings-stock-price-2123ee4

Did we get our mid year advance? I can’t access CEC for some reason.