After careful consideration the ETL have decided that instead of laying off another 1000 people from the US, they will have a Hunger Games in the car park of building 25. Last person standing gets a directorship!

Not sure of H-Hour. Be prepared - Bangalore torpedoes armed, webbing tight and all pouches closed. Collect your money and move on.

I was hit in Sept, 2017, I believe this is due to age that I was 40 last year,but I think this is a very suitable time to leave that I can still find a job to extend my career instead of 45 years later. I got a very very good package that is totally... — read more 

I know for a fact there is a directive from the highest levels to lower the average age of Cisco and so does anyone effected by it. The trade press will never write anything to publicise this as they could be sued and secondly they rely on... — read more 

I was laid off in Sep 2016. There was on reason given. I was told that is was not a performance issue. I was told, by my manager, that he was handed a note (from his manager) that essentially had my name on it and he was told to read the specific... — read more 

Today's news has left me and at others in shock. To promote this type of person to arch leader is just bad logic. Not surprised business is so bad. Anyone got inside track?

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/19/zoom-growing-faster-than-slack-okta.html

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-cisco-arbitration-20170 http://www.insidecounsel.com/2017/01/18/cisco-loses-bid-to-arbitrate-age-bias-suit

Uuugh...just got hit. I was notified yesterday..sounds like another big one.

Cisco seems to be a sinking ship. Nothing the ELT does seems to make things better. In the mid-to-late 2000's, the (then) Global Government Solutions Group produced a customized version of standard Cisco gear that included US non-export encryption... — read more 

Heard from a reliable management source that there will be more layoffs in the UK after the Q2 results are announced. Apparently Enterprise have had a shocking H1 and people above are viewing this as an indicator the rest of the uk will follow in the... — read more 

If this is Cisco's Cloud strategy to combat Amazon/Google/Azure, I think it's time to call your broker and sell. http://blogs.cisco.com/cloud/multicloud-world

www.thelayoff.com/dell

Wal-Mart is a good example of employee movement. When they lay-off people everybody lays off people. Sorry fellas. It's been to know you.

I heard that Ulevitch starts culling whole groups within SBG. Only his child (OpenDNS) going to be safe.

Under his legislation, any company paying H-1B workers less than $100,000 would have to show they couldn't hire Americans for the same jobs. Existing law has a similar requirement but sets the threshold at $60,000, a level established in 1998, and... — read more 

REPOST ... but all the signs are here for the end of Q2 Let me give you a peek into the workings of an LR (Source: @IGXXwSC-1gdx ). About a 3 months in advance you start to see the warning signs. Backfills don't get approved, OpEx gets slashed... — read more 

Contractors in the collaboration group have been put on furlough for rest of the quarter. I am not sure if this is across the company. I wonder if more layoffs are coming next quarter.

https://www.thestreet.com/story/13941230/1/why-cisco-s-stock-price-may-be-stuck.html

https://cdn.ampproject.org/c/www.networkworld.com/article/3148784/lan-wan/what-to-expect-from-cisco-in-2017.amp.html

I wish Cisco a great success, be #1 cloud company and no more layoffs ... ... Yes, I still believe in Santa :D

President Elect Trump had a Tech Summit a few weeks ago at his tower in NYC so all the "heavyweights" of Silicon Valley could come and kiss his ring; Tim Cook (Apple), Cheryl Sandberg (Facebook), Larry Page (Google), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Elon Musk... — read more 

I've been on here quietly reading the posts and I have to say there is a lot of negativity. I suspect most of it is from people who got LR'd and are bummed to be out of the easiest place to make money I can think of. Cisco is without doubt the best... — read more 

I know lot of people got laid off in 2016 like never before, but no one really knows exact figure. I am primarily looking number of Cisco Employees laid off in US all over 2016. Does anyone have reliable sources to quote accurate Figures only for US?

...to forget about Cisco and all its failings for a few days and enjoy the holiday break. Happy Christmas to all.

the morals of the Cisco exec team on show again....

Say i am off to a competitor, how many days should be the notice period ? I could not find a link to resign online from HR page in CEC although there is a one according to my colleagues who took the same route before, any idea where it is buried in... — read more 

How are folks in Insieme doing under David G.? Anything interesting happening in last few months?

I want to thank Cisco for laying me off and the nice parting gift. Of course I was bitter. But, As many have noted, only until you are away from the dysfunction do you clearly see what a joke the company is. All of you that are fresh out of college... — read more 

It's been a pretty turbulent year so far and we're not even half way. Revenue is down, employee moral is down, over 7k people were sacked and more are choosing to leave daily, Arista wins legal decision, Intercloud is dropped, pulling out of... — read more 

Had our Christmas party last Friday night in a lovely hotel. Nice food, good wine but the lowest attendance I've ever seen at one of these events. Thankfully the spouses and partners bulked up the numbers a little bit to make it look less... — read more