At last year's year-end financial call, the CEO said that Cisco would reinvest the cost savings from its restructuring plan into "key priority areas such as security, IoT, collaboration, next generation data center and cloud." It's been almost 9... — read more 

SJ Campus is buzzing on the direction of cuts. Big LR in engineering coming. Will hit route switch, wifi, shuttering NDS among other things. If you are in engineering it's like dodge ball these days. This is a horrible place to work. Innovation s---s... — read more 

I think my manager is lying to me, when he says that I'm already close to the upper range of pay for my grade. If I ask him about my CR, and from the number he gives my and my base salary I calculate where the midpoint would be, it gives a... — read more 

FY17 LR's will be announced to the press in July. What are people's predictions on numbers this year and what areas will be cut?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/18fa8e3e-d115-4bd9-b989-5fdfa67125d9

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/18fa8e3e-d115-4bd9-b989-5fdfa67125d9

Organization structure is insane. A typically strong performer is some 10-12 levels away from the CEO. This means, while the compensation is good at the beginning, there is simply no room for a tremendous growth. Company in doldrums: Listen plebe... — read more 

I left Cisco about a year ago due to the uncertainty of employment with constant redundancies and the beyond low moral. However I have come to regret my move for two reasons. Firstly outside of Cisco you have to work. There is none of this hiding... — read more 

It happens only in Cisco. Three layers of VPs and four layers of SVPs? How can you justify such org structure? I am simply amazed.

Why is Cisco filled with career politicians? Cisco Politician Lifecycle Identify buzzword Obtain funding & create organizations to justify their salaries Waste shareholder money + self-promote + build strategic internal relationships Attempt to cover... — read more 

Cisco Intercloud - "Cisco pledges two year, billion dollar investment to build a global network of clouds" - that's from 2014. Fast-forward to 2016, and you can read yet another epitaph carved by The Big Three; "Cisco Kills its $1 billion cloud"... — read more 

After the failure of his Gigital Transformation Group initiative, and messing up some great resources he just passed the failing team to others to clean the mess. In EMEAR they passed the resources under another failing useless group (digital... — read more 

Cisco, a 32-year-old technology company (let that sink in), is facing massive existential threats. Chambers keeps selling his stock...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/aalsin/2017/04/10/ciscos-board-has-some-explaining-to-do/#3e8452074e5d

Good news ladies and gentlemen. RSUs are coming next week. The guidance is to give to 80% of GL10, and to 95% GL11 and GL12. Lower grades only in very specific circumstances. No RSUs this time for G13 and above (on CORP plan), but they received... — read more 

There was a meeting in San Jose last week. Jerusalem's Israel site manager was in San Jose for a meeting with Cisco high management. Probably this is related to SPVSS and its future. Does anyone know anything about this? meeting outcome?

Why are you still at Cisco? If you've left, why are you coming here?

AT&T White box end-to-end test should scare Cisco, Juniper alike.

Does anyone know when the front line "yearly" LR happens? Is it in august? Significant rumors indicate one is coming, wondering how long we have to wait.

We'll be back to free cola and ending layoffs in no time! https://seekingalpha.com/article/4060465-cisco-going-higher

Aside from its poor performance it seems like anyone half decent is looking to leave ASAP or has done so already. When I speak to people in that op, it sounds completely toxic at the moment. I have to say though I'm pleased that the person... — read more 

Seriously, how hard this could be to figure out that if you use 64bit counter to count picoseconds, it will overflow after about 213 days? And what does it say about engineering review process and quality assurance in general?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/31/vmware_to_end_support_for_thirdparty_virtual_switches/

USCIS has established an email address which will allow individuals (including both American workers and H-1B workers who suspect they or others may be the victim of H-1B fraud or abuse) to submit tips

H1B strict new requirements for Visas. https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/nativedocuments/PM-6002-0142-H-1BComputerRelatedPositionsRecission.pdf So maybe the Trump haters in here need to ...

Looks they are building an empire with the addition of DTG resourcethe same group. I have no idea what have they done before. Any insights folks?

Put a fork in it. It's done. I'm tired of hearing my VPs chant "Innovation! Innovation!" in a Balmer-esque manner. They still get their giant bonuses and millions in stock.

Looks like the mother-ship's valley footprint is about to get much smaller: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170324005143/en/Hudson-Pacific-Properties-Announces-Capital-Plan-Office Other articles mentioned that people thrown out of Milpitas... — read more 

http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/WARN-Report-for-7-1-2016-to-03-25-2017.pdf

Just got back from my first day in a new place, after few years spent at Cisco. Managed to avoid afternoon commute rush hour on the tube. My last day at Cisco was last week, and now I'm back after my first day in my new place. It's good moment for... — read more 

Get ready for the big'un. New leader needs a new org. Managers and PSS should be polishing their CVs about now as the axe falls. Reviews and mental notes being made ready for Q4. Good luck.

Any updates on possible job cuts at Cisco Service Provider Video Software and Solutions (SPVSS)? How about H2?

We have had the US, India, and it looks like Israel is getting it next week. When's the UK's turn?

From Oracle's board (60 Min, CBS): @Mo2exBG

Looking at Digital Transformation, led by Sandy Hogan, an organization of 400 employees and still trying to hire more, bringing absolutely a rounding error of value to the compnay. Same like S+CC, and others, all were also bringing insignificant... — read more 

With all the layoffs and mess happening, how would you turn Cisco around? Is it too late?