Simeone told me 6 Aug may be layoff announcement. Is that true.

Specific orgs? Grade levels? Types of people?

A major customer renewed their contract for nearly 1 billion euro. Five year term.

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People, Cisco is NOT a great place to work. I worked there almost 20 years and my LR came in 2016 - when I was at 150% of plan. And I was considered a high-performer and was in the "diversity area" in my field. This is all a numbers game - Cisco DOES... — read more 

There is no value of talent in Cisco anymore. These rumours of layoffs are reality now. Better work in other companies or even startups instead of mentally torturing and blaming yourself. Many of the colleagues are having mental breakdown in Cisco.

Im not there anymore (was gifted in the big round in 2016 with my entire team, which they later decided to rebuild because they figured out after what value we really brought...logic?). That said I was there this week visiting a former colleague and... — read more 

What is the midpoint or base salary range ion San Jose for Grade 11 and Grade 12 in Cisco TAC, Advanced Services or BU ?

What is the midpoint or base salary range for Grade 11 and Grade 12 in Cisco TAC, Advanced Services or BU ?

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Got the dreaded 15 minute 1:1 invitation along with 7 of my reports. RSU will only be paid out if you sign the waiver.

Without Rhyme or Reason, and getting rid of highly productive people using the good ole age and tenure regime.

Service sellers are getting a haircut starting today. More coming for CX (old AS).

Is anyone paying for SPVSS developed products, or is all the revenue coming in from services integration work? Will it book any revenue in the future? Not sure what kind of prospects P sees here, is it just maintaining old school STB that have been... — read more 

Director and VP level changes will take effect immediately, followed by senior management in Q2 FY19 and grade 8 thru 11 individual contributors in FY20

Does anybody have rough idea of max base pay for G11 in GSSO U.K location. I am not sure how much to ask or expect.

There is a big Cisco public announcement coming on Thursday. Heard it will be offset by layoffs in India group that is not doing as well.

Any news ?

There is restructuring in Security BU (email security, Fire Power and Policy) departments. One Director has been changed to Principal Engineer and lot of team has been deleted. This is the same division, where last year a Sr. Director was removed.

Y sends an email and all the managers line up and accept it. Accept loosing ALOT of money. They must have got something they are not telling about. How knows and willing to share ??

Many of the people in Collaboration Vertical are LRed. Product impacted are remains of cloud, UX and contact center on premise applications. Also one Director is in the list. Important sites SJ, Boston and RTP are impacted.

Hearing lot of rumors about a new round of layoff. Is it true? Why again when we had a massive layoff last year??

Should technocrats & managers non-vp stay in P ? I AM CONFUSED. with theold tech we will work. What is product techno How will it compete netfl, ott

My company is doing something similar. How did customers take the change in approach. And where you successful at getting customers to pay for a customer Success manager when they previously had it for free?

Cisco will transition the four largest CMS customers to TAC operations in Krakow & Bangalore beginning 2nd quarter FY20. All other CMS customers will be sold off to other managed service providers.

This includes business development managers, high touch operation managers, project managers, analysts, global senior managers, grade 8+ consulting engineers, ITIL role managers ect

Motivation. Engineer (non manager) Getting RSU''s every two years, got notification last week , most of the non vested RSU''s are lost in the transition to primeera. This is a big portion of his year's pay. I know manager read this. This action kills... — read more 

I used to work for Cisco a while ago. I am filling an application where the new employer is asking about the Cisco employment dates, manager's name and phone number. I don't know/remember the manager's current phone number, and think that he is now... — read more 

Due to the merger in TS & AS many redundant AS positions will be chopped. AS is bloated & highly overrated. If you are a grade 11 or 12 in AS then you are a target this time as your work can easily be done by grade 6 or 8. Due to the flat revenue... — read more 

I am hearing the rumors of layoffs as well. Especially in IT and operations. As always the rumor is the layoff will be big but who knows. Ive heard that rumor before and it doesnt materialize. Regardless if you are one of the people who gets let go... — read more 

I have heard lot of buzz from within cisco about cisco aci and cisco aci multisite from insieme BU. Do both these products make good money? How is the multisite team? I have an offer from them

Why can't Cisco just buy Amazon? Problem will be solved instantly.

What's the deal folks ? Time to flee ?

Sounds like another round of layoffs are coming our way for the month of August. Such is the rumor here in RTP, IT. This is getting old.

Can somebody explain to me how is this OK? While people are being laid off or forced to leave on their own practically on daily bases here, Cisco is adding more jobs in Ireland. It looks like everybody is prioritized over American employees. I'm... — read more 

There has been an alarming decline in the overall Quality of features in ios xr and no amt of sanity , testing and or precommit gates is helping because the bones are weak now. I do not see sanity catching real issues, sanity scripts themselves break... — read more