What's the Israel notification date? some say either coming Sunday or the Sunday after (June 4th or June 11th). and which groups are becoming red badge (the India company)?

http://www.barrons.com/articles/arista-wins-another-wipe-out-of-cisco-patent-says-wells-1496346295?mod=yahoobarrons&ru=yahoo&yptr=yahoo

https://www.thestreet.com/story/14156358/1/cisco-cuts-250-jobs-in-san-jose.html

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lifeafteribm-one-year-later-tim-collins?trk=v-feed&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_feed%3Balwi6ysBumUBZwW7LbYKkw%3D%3D **Just replace the term 'IBM' with 'Cisco' for now, coz we all will get to read similar success... — read more 

If it's any comfort, Cloudera is hiring in all divisions, nationally and globally. https://example.com/OVs6mD Which divisions have been hit?

Perhaps Chuckie and company could learn something from Amazon. I'd suggest some of the condescending posters promoting age discrimination on this site could too, but I think they are beyond hope. https://m.slashdot.org/story/326805 My favorite line... — read more 

heard that LR'ed People have been notified in UK? Is it true? and any other EMEAR countries started?

Please update your team/BU name if you are one of them who got freedom from daily threats of being laidoff..so that others may plan to vacate sinking ship or be proactive.

Do you think that Cisco should get rid of its references that it is a family focused company? Are the claims of diversity and inclusion accurate? Perhaps these are also very specific to the management chain that one is part of. One opinion: It is far... — read more 

Once a person is laid off, and enters the 4 weeks of "transition period", shall they expect any more paychecks until the lump sum in-lieu pay? Also, is HR supposed to contact the newly laid off person or is the laid off person supposed to reach out... — read more 

Is what Cisco is doing, really a Limited Restructuring, or is there a better term we can use? Please provide your ideas for the term we should be using. Some examples below: Cull of the elderly Corporate genoside of its old Keeping VP's pockets lined... — read more 

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3270245-cisco-paying-57m-lost-case-sri

http://blogs.cisco.com/lifeatcisco/welcome-to-cisco-bedfont-lakes-the-uks-flagship-office Chill out zones You can find many “chill out zones” in all three Cisco buildings at Bedfont Lakes. This is where we come to relax or take a break. How? Well... — read more 

https://finance.yahoo.com/m/dfa86a24-3a59-35d3-8df7-ff376bcf6815/arista-notches-another-win.html Bye Bye Cisco, Bye Bye Cisco, Bye Bye Cisco, I am so glad you let me go!

Can anyone tell me what software Cisco sells that is market leading and will likely stay that way for the next 1-2 years? I'm racking my brain and struggle to see how Cisco is going to hold it all together and become a Software business with so many... — read more 

Rock on Cisco!!! http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/WARN_Report_for_7-1-2016_to_05-25-2017.pdf

Heard from recruiter couple of days ago. Whats up with that group? Any layoffs there?

Yet another piece of trash from Cisco (ume etc..). https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/23/15680250/google-jamboard-digital-whiteboard-hands-on-video

Look at where the new kids are coming from, for a graduate scheme made for UK young starting their lives, it seems only UCL foreign nationals are hired. Perhaps cause that whole management chain (CG, OS, PG) are not British, hire like themselves.

The water cooler talk is that Cisco is looking for potential buyers of its server business. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/18/cisco_servers/ No proper roadmap. The true visionaries have moved to Pure storage and Dell. The leaders of this group... — read more 

In the UK we were told we needed to be more of an office culture and they announced a massive investment in to Bedfont Lakes. I would not be surprised if it Monday to Thursday becomes mandatory in the office (or at customer site).

Over the past year Cisco has managed to rid itself of a lot of good folk by making their jobs so miserable or underpaid they left for the competition. Nothing new there, it happens in every industry. The difference is that Cisco hasn't been... — read more 

Can someone share the exact date managers must hand in the division of bonus between their reportees (IPFs)? I understand its around beginning of August or end of July. Is that true?

Any chance we'll get anything? I noticed that the regular "Quarterly P&LI bonus update" post on jive, was not updated after Q3. That's probably not a good sign.

Anyone know the numbers for UK yet?

While the employees are sh-- scared about their existence and eagerly awaiting updates, some of the execs are shamelessly posting their golfing and exotic vacations photos along with a champagne bottle on social networking sites. Am I blessed to be... — read more 

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO TROLL POSTS. You’ve noticed that we have a troll who is trying to pepper this board with racially and politically charged posts. The language of hate is unacceptable and against the rules of this site. I will personally commit... — read more 

IBM Just Committed Cultural and Creative Suicide https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/ibm-just-committed-cultural-and-creative-suicide.html

When are we going to cut back on the executive cafeteria? I'm not talking about the one next to the EBC which is for visiting customers, but for the custom catered meals that the xVPs get in building 10. They get catered food which is hand picked... — read more 

Everyone are worried. No one dares to speak about this in public though.

I'm in my mid 50s, so I expect to become extinct this year. Anyone here in their 60s?

Many of the teams in UCS/data center had All hands meetings with their Second line managers or directors saying they will announce impacted employee's list in 2 weeks time frame.. not sure whts going on in their mind. The logic was given as if they... — read more 

What peeved me was as they were firing me and a lot of other 50+ people, Chambers was throwing a huge party for himself. Thanks John, Rock on Chuck T shirts - who would do something like this other than someone with a personality like Trump. Living... — read more 

The whole "Service Delivery Executive" thing is a joke. These guys then think they are sales, and marginalize those in the sales teams who are actually out trying to meet the customer's needs. They have no skin in the game (no quota), so they make... — read more 

I got LR'd and I have a question about In Lieu pay. After the one month notice period, I get In Lieu pay in a lump sum. Am I still eligible for this lump sum payment if I have already started work at another company?

If I was Chuckles......I would split the company into two entities. Hardware / Software.

Sadly I believe the 1100 layoffs this month is just the appetizer and the main course will be in August, as usual. There have been comments that Cisco was appending these 1100 to last August's 5500 in order to keep it within the fiscal year (and... — read more 

CSCO is working on a major overhaul whereby all those who WFH/remote will have to come to the office 5 days a week (M-F). This will be implemented just before Q4 ends. Employees will be given 2 weeks to adjust to the new norm. Those who wont comply... — read more