There are two colleagues (both young ladies) in my team who very often send Connected Recognition to each other. They haven't actually done anything outstanding, but they just send it to each other every after any easy task completes that anybody can... — read more 

Cisco TOP Indian management have decide to move Software Engineering Jobs from USA to India. If your Director OR Sr.Director are in India and leading team in USA. Your jobs are in huge risk. They slowly going to move US jobs outside of USA. India... — read more 

I would like to hear someone tell me that his or her hard work at Cisco is valued and adequately compensated. So far, I have not heard anyone who says that giving 120 percent of yourself and doing your job as professionally as possible is valued... — read more 

Recently, we noticed there are more and more huge network outages. Why do we have this kind of serious problems again and again? The answer is very simple, because there's some kind of progressive idea that traditional networking knowledge are... — read more 

I'm glad when someone gets a chance to work, learn new things, gain experience, etc. However, at one point at Cisco I became surrounded by a lot of new people who do not know their job and are not motivated to learn it either. In some ways, it was... — read more 

How much do you like our job on a scale from 0 (hate it) to 10 (awesome). Perhaps write a little bit about your role.

When can I expect the meeting from the manager about performance reviews? Did it already start?

....has anyone seen or heard from her? What is up. Lots of talk about fixing TAC but not from MM.

After a few too many drinks at the bars, it is amazing how many employees bragged that they work two jobs

Can someone explain the obsession on this site with “Quiet Quitting” Most people are inherently lazy these days, I still work two jobs at 53 yrs old. Why is the younger generation so lazy?

Let me rephrase that: watching the panicked reaction of executives and business owners all over the place to quiet quitting is giving me life. They absolutely hate it! They are giving interviews and writing articles and frothing at the mouth over it... — read more 

Well, the pictures from Impact are all over social media. What is it with this sycophantic desire to be photographed with the ELT? Here’s a direct quote from one “finally achieved my life’s ambition, to get my picture taken with CR”. If that’s... — read more 

I saw this message is in another thread. Sour grapes as always. Folks, get another hobby instead of spewing non-stop hate at Cisco. If you got PIP'ed out, move on, hate will not help you come to Cisco. Cisco puts food on my table. Long Live... — read more 

If you are looking for real pay, PAN is the place to be. We don’t have a VP and SED that lies to the field and refuses to take responsibility. We have reasonable goals. We have competent and accountable leadership that owns it regardless. If they... — read more 

It was embarrassing that JP was begging on stage for everyone not to give up on Collaboration. Next year it will be JP begging not to give up on Security. JP is overrated and has only destroyed Collaboration. Expect the same for Security.

As per HR stats , data center BU lost around 7% attrition- around 300 people left Cisco .. not sure if this trend continues

Can someone explain to me this id--t's infatuation with the number 19?? What's with the endlessly flexing of his stupidity??

Has anyone heard this? I heard from 2 sources and was wondering about…

The local Cisco office I have worked at for 10+ years is nearly completely empty now. Engineers go to the office for a couple hours only if they have lab work to do. No one actually goes to the office to “work”. Is this experience the same at other... — read more 

Many excellent employees have left Cisco mainly because of the managers who hide their incompetence behind their arrogance. I bet most of those big egos would find it difficult to even get a job anywhere else, not to mention maintain it, yet, they... — read more 

I have always tried to do my job as professionally as possible, but now it has simply become impossible. Of course, the manager is not very understanding when it comes to unrealistic expectations for one person to do so much work. I hope to leave... — read more 

I worked at Cisco in one of the APJC countries about 20 yrs ago and returned to Cisco. (well, I shouldn't have because I had not known the reality...) But I soon realized and shocked that the company had turned into a totally different company, full... — read more 

Hi community, Wondering to know your comments about these techs and is it worthy to switch from Cisco (with networking/security experience) to Datadog Thanks

Funny that Cisco spends all of this money on Impact, but can’t seem to find the budget to bring engineering teams together for strategic projects. I don’t know if it’s just my org, but it’s certainly frustrating.

Either I'm doing something very wrong or I'm just not among the lucky ones who can say that Cisco is easy pay. Really, for some of you it's easy pay here? How many of you are there? I've never been more overworked anywhere than here.

If you have not heard about it - Google it and get familiarized! This describes majority of Cisco employees (I think 50 to 70%) and (my guess) 90% of people who read/post here. By the way - there is nothing wrong with quiet quitting. And if you... — read more 

Which is a better company, interns of compensation and benefits.

Too quiet if you ask me. My manager is always on a call or webexing, and my standing meeting expired 2 weeks ago. We're told to hand tight.

When juniper introduces JDN, Cisco must introduce BDN. BDN: B@@$t@rd$ defined networking

From the message below do you think I am getting fired, or put on a PIP or getting a Separation Agreement? Things have not been going well (long story, only partially at fault) and I was sidelined quite a while ago, I have no active work assignments... — read more 

I’m about ready to drop my big code load in Vegas! Expense policy is $100 per day!!! Lots of other sales sl|me looking to blow past thst and play hide the sawsage with expense tool and ssles lady! Nobody attend session!

Now that it is Q1 anyone know if there's going to be a merit cycle? Are raises going to be given even if only cr---y ones? If so when do managers let everyone know?

GSSO hiring a global VP of Sales from PAN has shown how foolish they are. This person was a disaster for us with no executive cybersecurity experience. As you can see by earnings announcement we are still on a rocket ship. We are almost double... — read more 

After more than 22 years of helping lead Cisco’s marketing around networking, cloud and data center solutions and strategy, Prashanth Shenoy has left the networking giant to join VMware.

OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) -Cisco Systems Inc on Friday lost a court appeal to move to private arbitration a case over alleged caste discrimination in its Silicon Valley offices, where managers of Indian descent are accused of bias against a fellow... — read more 

It was a good quarter. ELT and other employees is on the same team. Team is called Cisco. Our comments toward ELT should be unbiased. Data driven. Ok to say it is bad to spend money on fancy rock/tv stars especially in bad times. But say good things... — read more 

Cisco cut my bonus by 15%, I will quiet quit by doing 30% less work in order to compensate for the loss in pay. I know some of you boomers look at this and say that's immoral. Well, let me tell you this: Why is Chuckie and that huge whale being paid... — read more 

With another 19% considering it. That's a total of 70% companies. Knowing Cisco, I can confidently say that we're not in the 30% of lucky ones who will not have layoffs any time soon. What worries me more is where to find a new job if most of our... — read more 

In the past, managers here really cared about having motivated people. Back then, there was a lot of talk about the importance of being the leader in the industry. I believe that today my manager is not at all interested in how motivated we are... — read more