Counting the days until I can get that Cisco poison off my resume. When Cisco takes over your company then the logo and company name against your career stages becomes Cisco. That is career poison.... Roll on NDS 2.0 so I can change it back again and... — read more 

Hello Guys, 5+ years at Cisco. Have seen lots of ups and downs. Great pay and benefits but zero job growth and stability. An offer from an awesome growing start up; will need me taking a pay cut though. Confused.

How much G11 and G12 Advanced Services engineer or TAC engineer makes in San Jose as a base salary ? I guess bonus is 20 % extra.

What's the plan , Maria? Radio silence. More People Deal Standby for the annual cull... Salesforce Style!

For the sites P does not want, will Cisco fire them early?

One thing absent from Live. No new products to speak of. Google cloud handshake (while Cisco deploys their stuff on AWS), multicloud (whatever that means), Spark renamed to Teams, new bezel on 3850 switches called Catalyst 9k, DNA - a product named... — read more 

Is it true Dr Abe meeting xCisco guys outsourced now. In India? What is the rational and plan. Leads appreciated

We only know RS and have spent countless years in BS the customers. Where can we go and find next gig before getting canned ? We don’t know other vendors and cloud.

List is ready. This will be a major one and CSCO will make a public announcement this time about the layoff, however, they will provide a lower layoff figure than the actual one.

4 men out 4 women in. All but one of Chuckie’s direct reports are women. Let’s hear it for diversity and software... — read more 

After failing to turn Juniper into a software company but getting rich in the process GE is at Cisco for another try at converting an over the hill hardware vendor... — read more 

So who would like to speculate on who will be coming back to NDS once it is free of the Cisco stranglehold? And as an aside let’s give odds on how long various members of the legacy CISCO team wil survive in a proper video business.

It seems to be very difficult to find any information about this. If a person is to leave 1 month before the end of the fiscal year, does it mean that this person will loose the entire annual bonus (i.e. it will not be proportionally calculated?)... — read more 

Just wondering what the situation is at Cisco right now in regards to hiring older employees who were laid off in one of the previous layoffs rounds? Is it even provided as an option to them? Or are people simply blacklisted by the company once they... — read more 

https://www.law.com/therecorder/2018/05/23/aristas-antitrust-suit-against-cisco-okd-for-trial/?slreturn=20180424225310 I doubt that Cisco will be found to be in violation of antitrust laws- but you never know. Perhaps Cisco kicked a hornets nest with... — read more 

I called this a few months ago but no one would believe me back then!

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/05/21/us-green-cards-available-for-indians-but-theyre-not-cheap.html

Check out UOIP and its relation to Cisco in the below article, and do your own research. 1,000%+ Returns Anticipated By Investors Holding UnifiedOnline, Inc... — read more 

Cisco has declared to spend $300 million for restructuring costs so we can assume atleast 4000 ppl will be laid off.

Rumor says layoffs will or are about to occur in SP networking. The group of folks who “deveoped” NCS5500 has run the business to the ground. They seem to be able to always find execuses and blame marketing, sales, support and everyone else for their... — read more 

I was laid off in September, 2016 and was I was well over the age of 50 as were just about everybody else knew that was laid off. To get our severance package we had to sign an agreement essentially giving up all rights to sue Cisco, etc. Cisco would... — read more 

www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2018/05/14/controversial-uscis-memo-draws-major-h-1b-lawsuit/amp/

There is massive hiring going on in Collaboration and CCBU in Bangalore. More than 50 positions are advertised and most are in Grade-10 and above.

I see a lot people complaining about being laid off. Most blame the people deal and b--ch that Cisco doesn't care about it's employees. No sh--. It's not their job to make employees the top priority. That is and will always be to make money. After... — read more 

Cisco Recognized as No.1 for Employee Experience We are extremely proud that Cisco has been recognized around the world as a leader in employee experience. We make a meaningful difference for our people, our customers and the world around us. These... — read more 

I got a webletter recently about an RSU reward. In contrary to previous grants where it simply said I got the RSU, this one said my boss only recommended to give me RSU and there is a committee that will decide at the end of the month whether to... — read more 

Cool stuff. UOIP is almost 35% up today. Losers look and research into stock ticker UOIP !!!!! Cisco and Arris are related and the price is skyrocketing during last 30 days.

After SPVSS rumors frenzy, thanks god the deal is announced officially, Cisco seems to be a safe and fun place once again with no more layoffs. Everybody seems to be excited to go to work; have got raise and RSUs already; waiting for annual bonus... — read more 

It is a bloated lift and shift mess.

Peled returns as Permira buys Cisco video business!

www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/03/h-1b-visas-tighter-rules-illegal-tech-outsourcers-claim-in-lawsuit/amp/

I'm an xNDS and xCisco employee. I think Abe is a great technologist, businessman and manager, who would indeed like to bring some cool stuff to the market. And he's far better than the raft of incompetents who have managed the xNDS business so... — read more 

How in the world did we rank among top 100 employers for 2018 on Forbes' list? Seriously, how are we, out of tens of thousand companies in the country, among top 100 as best employer? I guess PR is earning their pay after all... — read more 

They've got to be joking On a scale of 1 to 5, please rate your understanding of Chuck's strategic pillars... WTF? What would you tell ... and his SLT about what it's like to work at Cisco in EMEAR? Not for long baby.

Just wondering if the latest acquisition of Accompany will bring even more layoffs with it? I'm sure the incoming company will see major cuts, after all that's what Cisco always does when it buys something, but what about us? Is anybody at Cisco in... — read more 

It seems Cisco lost on 7 out of 8 IPRs that it filed against Chanbond / UOIP. Uoip has sued 13 major cable companies for infringement of it patents. RPX also lost IPR and then appeal against Chanbond / UOIP. The trial is expected to start at the end... — read more 

Cisco paid approximately $5 billion for NDS in 2012.. For how much Cisco has sold SPVSS?

So, now that we know the sale is official, how many will be laid off as part of the acquisition? I've seen numbers ranging from 15 percent to 50 percent, all claiming some official knowledge. Does anybody actually knows for sure what's going to... — read more