Michael Burry said on Tuesday that the U.S. labor market is about to be sliced in half, with blue-collar workers remaining a sought-after commodity, while white-collar workers see job losses and falling wages. In other words, the good times are... — read more 

Was wondering if anyone has heard if there will be layoffs?

As an independent trusted advisor, Cisco is a hard sell in the collab space. They were the leaders and I made an honest living for about 15 years focusing on Cisco Voice/Collab. Since about 2018 it has been in decline. The rise of AWS Connect, Zoom... — read more 

I didn't know for what awesome company I do work https://www.levels.fyi/company/Cisco/benefits/ Apparently, I get free breakfast 1 day per week, free lunches 5 days per week, 12 days of sick time, gym reimbursement, a regional transit system and... — read more 

https://youtu.be/ijaTwmilZvo

How do you even get paid on hardware sales that take over 12 months to shop ? Don’t the comp plans close after 1 to 2 years anyway ?

Cisco, Nike quit Russia, as pace of Western firms leaving speeds up... https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/exclusive-cisco-wind-down-business-russia-belarus-2022-06-23/

The senior security sales leadership is hard at work to hide their complete incompetence. Unfortunately, it is not going to get any better as it is going to get much worse with the upcoming changes that will accelerate the decline of security sales... — read more 

https://youtu.be/MbTEOkku3Rg

Shout out to all of the fighters who held strong and didn't cave! And also shout out to all of the bozos who were hoping the unvaccinated got fired. You lose!!

Apart from the fact that I think that there is almost no incentive for innovation here, I think the talents needed by every company that seeks to launch innovative things are no longer here. What would you say - when did Cisco stop being... — read more 

3rd time this week one of my customers has told me TAC engineer hasn't responded to them in over a week How did the quality fall so much?

There is Weekly Check-In that my manager told me to submit on Fridays. Not just that, he told me (almost "forced me" or "demanded me") to select "Yes" for the question of: "This week, did xxxxxxx xxxxxx (my manager's name) connect with you about... — read more 

anyone know what happen to NSBU (network-as-a-Service BU) lead by JM..closed ?

Most of you will agree with me that there is zero innovation and the acquisitions generally don’t turn out as good as the Cisco leadership hopes to be. How does Cisco survive in this business environment?

Was Cisco Live US a super spreader event? If you look at twitter and talk to customers it seems that a massive amount of people got Covid at the event.

Someone mentioned Cisco being a quited.. Which company in their right mind would acquire this? I mean, if it meant getting rid of all the leaders, then be my guest. But no one who is about making profit will acquire shitsco

Is it true what was commented on renewal sales not being granted commission in June? Not that they deserve it, since partners do it all. But it speaks volumes on how they run the business if true. Same goes with GSSO gold rush if true.

Look at that "Related Company" list at the top of this page. Now tell me one company that's better to work for than Cisco. Just saying.

She had to cancel her Pillar Talk last second.

Just saw the first email from colleague in IT. Good luck.

Large Amount of Cisco Employees working 2 jobs or working 2 hours a day at home CEO and HR Lady could care less

Has anyone actually seen their calculations of the so called Gold Rush program. Why is there such a lack of transparency by VW. He has lied from the start of this and has gotten away with it. Has anyone opened a case with HR since there is no... — read more 

If yes, your job can be done by a guy Kansas. Or someone in India... Your position is weaker than you think.

Horrible acquisition & investment strategy. Attrition through the roof, people leaving daily Marketing is bad, bad, bad Focus on useless high end features Poor leadership that nobody trusts Teams, Zoom et. al. eating our lunch and... — read more 

5k blue, 8k red to be announced end of fiscal year. Blue badge 9 10 & 11 employees at top of range in their grade most vulnerable. Red badges assigned to project work most vulnerable. Expect broad de-funding This affects all emploees and all... — read more 

Ever since I started working here, I feel like my position is always in jeopardy with constant layoffs. Good performance in my opinion no longer means anything. Those who survived lots of round of layoffs here, do you think it was just pure luck? — read more 

The younger generation has seen us suffer and the best talent has decided they won’t put up with a company who implements constant layoffs. What is Cisco going to do to mitigate the fact that our new hires are starting to be dogshit? The young talent... — read more 

Im realtively new to Cisco

He waited so long to give out COLA raises that now the recession hit and he can get out of doing them at all. And if people do manage to find jobs elsewhere he won’t have to pay them their commission when the hardware actually ships a year from now. — read more 

Cisco Execs that presented from CEO on down are CLUELESS Everything they presented is already being deployed better and cheaper by AWS, Microsoft, Google, etc Only chance to save this company is to bring in a new Technical CEO and fire all of the... — read more 

It is sad what this company has turned into. Does any of the decision makers here care about the quality anymore?

Is MM on her way out? She is not on stage for Cisco Live and seems nowhere to be found.

Software Renewals. Pretty much the only part of the company that is making money due to covid. However; haven't had a comp plan in forever and haven't been paid commission since January. Been promised every month it's coming, it's going to get fixed... — read more 

Forget career growth , when was the last time we heard any technical vision from upper management? Once upon a time Cisco defined the tech future of the world. Now, they just do PowerPoint politics and licensing matrices. We are being told across... — read more 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cisco-emtrain-announce-partnership-build-130000113.html _With Emtrain, Webex users can now engage and train employees across their global workforce with timely and relevant content focusing on real-life workplace... — read more