As we're all aware by now, we very career-minded professionals in 40's and 50's with solid skills and experiences coming from another tech company join Cisco, and get so shocked to see a bunch of quiet, meek young staff in 20's and 30's with almost... — read more 

Whatever happened to that? Someone convinced them to cancel the plans? Cuz here we are in 2H…or are ya gonna say “two more weeks”/next FY.

It didn't have to end this way. With all of the resources available at Cisco, its collapse was not inevitable. Was it simply incompetence, or a combination of hubris and self-dealing that ki---d the company?

WPR to announce the permanent shutdown of RTP campus this spring.

I'm not sure in other parts of the world, but Cisco Japan has always been hiring new grads or those in 20's and 30's who previously worked only at Japanese companies with almost no special skill or no solid professional experience who are usually... — read more 

I find it funny when I notice that people who have a huge skillset pretend they don’t know something very well. I have a colleague who suddenly started “forgetting” how to do things. What's really going on? Perhaps the reason behind it is that... — read more 

Even worse, their second job directly competes with Cisco and they steer their customers to purchase the better non-Cisco product

Just saw on LinkedIn another VP leaving, no update where she is going. Aside from senior leadership, major uptick of key technical talent and business types saying goodbye. I left about a year ago and enjoyed that others where leaving (helped me... — read more 

I don’t want to offend anyone, but one has to admit that this is becoming a place where those with great skills and experience are becoming undesirable. I believe that now everyone has at least one colleague who lacks skills but is progressing much... — read more 

I came across this. It’s Cisco HR in the UK The email was provided using a data disclosure request. It concerns an employee who had made a complaint against an exec. Some points to remember, Cisco claim to be ethical, zero tolerance to any form of... — read more 

From the outside it looks like the SEs do all the work.

One month in to a new year: If you are staying, what are your next five to ten year Cisco career goals? What make Cisco your choice as the place to pursue your goals five to ten year goals, versus pursuing opportunities elsewhere? What do you... — read more 

Typical Cisco Mess-If you decrease Revenue and BS everyone until your stock is fully vested, you get to walk away with $100M+ after 48 months

I can't believe I work for a company where we have to have a Director of Diversity baby sit these meetings and arbitrate whether or not its OK to comment on someone new hair cut.

Or, better question, is anyone buying access points now? If nobody is in the offices, then why upgrade your access points? Even Cisco offices are not getting access points upgrades. So if Cisco customers are not buying... ???

How many customer meetings do our AMs/ PSSs have each week? Sedge? BSAs? What about CX roles we have added? What about all the hyperspecialists? (Please tell me why we need that my AppD specialists considering the revenue or the army of Meraki PSS/... — read more 

Randomly shuffling the deck every 1.5 years is not a strategy, it's gambling.

It looks like Cisco is still planning on having an in person sales meeting this August in Las Vegas with a requirement to show vaccination. This should not effect many in the sales ranks as on average 93% of Cisco is vaccinated and it would not... — read more 

New folks are coming in. Cisco licensing will be fixed in 3 months.

It is not true that all new hires are bad. I have a great new young colleague who is very talented and promising. I don't believe he will stay here long though. What interests me is what attracts such people to Cisco now? I think that this company... — read more 

How many customer meetings are you on each week?

It seems fractured and quite frankly, an afterthought. What went wrong?

Now being an over 55 technology worker, a comment to the younger technology worker college graduates and hard-working folks in their 30s: Someone over 55 that has been working in technology, say they started in their mid-20s (just like you maybe... — read more 

I personally have had enough of being a victim of DMs mafia style management and being unappreciated. Competitors are looking. Fortinet is paying at least 30% more plus RSUs. They are looking to fill loads of positions everywhere: enterprise, public... — read more 

There was once a time where I thought that the yearly layoffs were just vestiges of a dying company. There was once a time when I thought they sucked, but were probably necessary evils to keep the company afloat. There was once a time where I was... — read more 

434 days for a switch? That’s longer than delivering a child. Come on, we announce to the world that we have $xx billions in cash reserves/profits but we can’t solve the supply chain issues?

Just heard that in the 2H there will be another downsizing of SAs and SEs.

"Cisco insiders say changes to its compensation structure are making it harder for salespeople to get paid - and people are leaving." Zoinkes...

Management is a huge problem here. These people should never be in the management of any company. That is my personal opinion. I don't understand how they came to this position at all. They don't care about Cisco's future at all.

In 2010, just over a quarter of Cisco’s workforce consisted of overseas workers. However, in the last four years, this number has dramatically risen to 46% of the company’s workforce. China and India are currently the greatest beneficiaries of the... — read more 

Initiated in Q3 to be actioned by end of Q4. Main targets to be hardware-focussed BEs because of lack of cash flow due to manufacturing backlog.

Walked or shoved?

Not being well received!

The biggest reason why I'm leaving here (besides huge workloads) is that I really can't stand the fact that the management is constantly changing direction. It is not only demoralizing, but also terribly frustrating. Why is that? Why the constant... — read more 

This is more work to sell with C2E as there is so much more internal meetings prior to customer meeting then there is always cleanup after a C2E engagement. Is anyone measuring the amount of effort it takes to use C2E and the effort it take to save... — read more 

Other cloud companies are poaching Cisco talent (Cisco did make good products to enable the cloud) and using that talent for building the cloud (ORCL/AWS/GOOG etc) . Given that we provide a ton of infra for the cloud, why isnt Cisco developing a damn... — read more 

I am not familiar with this site, so I am not sure if this is considered an "appropriate" topic but I'm going to ask anyway: Any insight on a salary range for G10 in SJ for a systems architect role? For example, I was offered one located in PHX a... — read more 

Cisco has simply atrophied over the last seven years. When the board replaced one salesman with another salesman in 2015, it was clear that his only job at Cisco was to slow the rate of decline for as long as possible. Other technology leaders... — read more 

The attrition is getting worse by the week and it's mostly younger people under 40 who are leaving, at least from what I can see. I love that they're not willing to take the abuse and are taking their skills elsewhere. I'm staying here until... — read more