What are your thoughts? Rumors? News? Updates?

Today I overheard a woman say "They can't lay me off because I am a woman and there is not enough women in tech." As woman I must apologize for these feebleminded hypocrites who demand equality but quickly use their gender as a shield of protection... — read more 

The latest earnings report was pretty mediocre, as expected. It raises the question as to how long the new execs have before they get fired or leave. Any thoughts?

Look, the announcement about Cisco's challenging outlook was part of their layoff strategy all along. The decision to make bigger, deeper cuts was formulated months ago, but to sell this to the investors without spooking them, they needed to soften... — read more 

So revenue is down...... Big surprise there! So will we see more cuts in Q2 now? After all the dividend needs to keep growing, otherwise the pension and hedge funds will start going elsewhere.

True - he is finally out. Confirmed.

Any word on what's happening in the marketing and comms teams?

ONLY 42 LO in SJ a couple of week ago... I love cisco! http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/WARN_Report_for7-1-2016_to_11-10-2016.pdf

Headcount down 1326 in Q1 FY17 according to today's announcement.Is it really only 1326 ? Some of the acquisitions I guess might hide the real number here.

I am in RTP and was laid off two weeks ago. Wondering what the tax implications are of signing the paperwork and taking the package? Is the 3 months salary, COBRA money and PTO paid to me as a "bonus" or will it look like regular income? I am trying... — read more 

I am so tired of dealing with LinkedIn requests to add a recruiter to my network so they can talk with me about a position, only to find out that it's a position that needs to be filled on my old team. Cisco wants a less experienced person at a lower... — read more 

I had been working on agile projects for on-premise projects but about a year ago our entire team of 40 people moved to cloud based work on a Continuous Integration deployment model. In this CI model we are deploying new code into production or at... — read more 

IoT, IoE, Smart Grid, Smart Cities......all of it an attempt to find new markets and all too late to the game. The ability to turn a Philips light bulb pink from blue from your iPhone is not going to right this ship.

Going to be graduating college in a year and was offered a position on the San Jose TAC team (no specific team known yet). I was curious if anyone knows of layoffs in the TS sector as well as where you think the future of TS is going. Are these SJ... — read more 

What is the future of this company in Smart Cities ? There seems to be a lot of advertising in the newspapers about this.

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Cutting the tribe (Patel, Biri) was a first step. Now all of the ELT should be fired for ruining a Fortune 500 company and destroying lives of the innocent, hard workers thanks to vile ego & greed. The Cisco Board of Morons are too chicken sh-- to... — read more 

Given the interaction I notice during executive leadership team meetings, Chuck listens more to Kelly Kramer than to his own product SVPs. Can you believe this? That's what happens when you have a sales monkey without any technology understanding at... — read more 

I noticed the last couple of LRs seemed to impact many employees not in big offices (e.g. Tuscon, AZ, Hawaii, etc.) and/or not working on new software product. I wonder if the strategy here is to get rid of those heads so you can spend money instead... — read more 

I heard today from a reliable and senior source that Andy Chew offered his team to Scot Gardner for LR's, in return for an early retirement deal. Good to see the old boys club is alive and kicking in the UK&I leadership team!

Any idea? I don't believe in significant changes in visa/immigration regime, but some tax holidays for repatriated profits may be on the table. Is Trump BAU for Cisco?

I start in January & I know Cisco offers an Employee Stock Purchase Plan for blue badge employees. How does this work exactly? How do I maximize its benefits?

Is it me or do others feel the same? Overpaid blue badges doing simple work is a total waste of money. We need to be better about this no one is being held responsible for allowing this.

I saw the thread about some Tech Leads being Project Managers but my direct manager is also my SCRUM master. This sounds messed up to me but maybe it's common?

I have heard several AS folks have been given big chunk of RSUs last month. Recently most of the employees received salary raises in OCT. I wondering if same AS guys have now received the salary raise as well?

Are CCTG making any money? Is callManager part of that group or is it just pie-in-the-sky projects that are making nothing? If the VP of Engineering for that group was removed then there must be some focus on the BU

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LR FYQ1 (Feb) here...Would appreciate hearing what others are doing about theirs.

Could we please collect the list of affected BUs/groups in this thread. Such important info is spread through other threads.

What's on your mind?

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CVG BU have apparently been culled in the last few days because it supposedly wasn't making any money. That's the Cisco Cloud and Virtualization business unit for those of us that struggle with all the stupid acronyms. CCTG has also had significant... — read more