I'm working in a UK site, and, for better or for worse, I avoided the chop this time. I feel it is only a matter of time though and the overwhelming majority of my colleagues feel the same. It has devastated morale in the office seeing highly... — read more 

My severance was due to me last week but I did not received it. I had to open a case with the HRC and they told me someone else had the same issue with the same termination date of September 19th. If you're experiencing this issue, you can call the... — read more 

The time has come. I didn't show up in my London office for last four weeks, but I will come on the last day. Will try to get a webex with our director in US. I would just tell him "I hope you're happy now, once you destroyed this group". If I can't... — read more 

Hi, I spent some time in September trying to maximize my HSA incentive pay (i.e. got a physical, had the follow-up call, tracked my activity, etc.). Are these payments being made to the Health Savings Account? I'd expect them by now but not sure if I... — read more 

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How are the opportunities outside both in terms of pay and career growth? Please share your stories.

My Last working day with Cisco is 17th Oct which is Monday. Is it OK to sign and ship it overnight with FedEx Next Business Day Service on 17th Oct itself to be eligible for Severance?

It was signed and mailed on September 19. It takes 21 business days to process severance. They stated severance are processed on Fridays and for me to call back. I called back today to confirm that I indeed did not receive it yet. The rep mentioned... — read more 

Here is an interesting article regarding age discrimination in Silicon Valley. Note that Cisco is specifically mentioned. http://www.therecorder.com/home/id=1202769197826/Decoding-Age-Bias-in-Silicon-Valley

The whole Industry is showing signs of cancer. This could be the beginning of another 10 year downward cycle. First Ericsson, now HP: http://www.businessinsider.com/hp-employees-become-contractors-2016-10 Good luck to all you poor bastads stuck... — read more 

Interesting read! http://m.crn.com/slide-shows/networking/300082398/top-22-cisco-technology-innovators-who-have-headed-for-the-door.htm

As someone who is not impacted in this LR, I look at how badly this one has been handled and how diligent and professional colleagues are being treated, actually I feel like I am impacted. This will go down in history as a major turning point in... — read more 

Keep hearing about this on this site, but cannot. Please corroborate and provide some insights. Timeline, Groups, Teams, Technology, etc.

Is it 240 hours max or 280 hours ?

I worked with multiple grade 12s and 13s that were non-technical. No knowledge in anything remotely technical. These people were good at internal processes, joining webexes, taking minute notes and getting other people to do their ask for them. They... — read more 

Most tech companies have an analytics strategy with data science. How is Cisco in this field? Are they using advance techniques to gather business intelligence? Are they competing with the Googles of the world?

I was really disappointed when John Chambers and the Board picked Chuck as the new CEO. It really felt like this was a great opportunity to get an outsider with a fresh view, to rethink the company's next act. Now we have the same jackassery with a... — read more 

Lots of good, hard working and high performers that are the crucial underpinning to the Cisco engine are impacted by the last LR. There are still a lot of lazy, low performers around. They played the political game as well as the kiss up game to... — read more 

I was given a bottom ranking one year, when the previous year (in the exact same role - no requirements had changed), was ranked the highest employee on the team - received an additional bonus even for being the highest. We had no new-hires onto our... — read more 

Titles of positions and Grade system are meant to keep the salary structures really low . This is the real trick that no one seems to understand . The salaries here are 25 - 35 % lower than the industry rates while the work required to be done for... — read more 

Been offered a Product Manager job at Cisco ? What are the challenges here is it worthwhile ?

We all know Cisco CFO is from GE and she hired another finance big head from P&G. There is a big presentation from Cisco finance recently being floated around on how to create brands from Cisco products...:) Bravo CFO. They finally have figured out a... — read more 

Many of us were hoping that the latest round of our yearly "purge" would cut down on the vile oders eminating from breakroom microwaves and filthy WCs. Sadly, that is not the case. Bad code, banal "strategy" power points, discustingly smelly squiggly... — read more 

To answer the questions from our UK colleague, CTS has its own bonus system far less appealing than the CISCO one, especially for grades 10 and below. CTS has less leaves than CISCO France also. Thanks to the "CE" members that are so called... — read more 

Hilton's Cisco M&A team as we know is very active in sourcing deals and in charge of closing deals....Someone commented earlier in another post that they sometimes block company presentation, even from a possible list of targets if the team senses... — read more 

This ... http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-culture-ate-our-corporate-reputation-1475445084

Biri is out...in 1 year 3 months time.....Bad for Chuck

Since the last day was Sep 19, and assuming that Cisco gets the separation agreement by the 19 and they allow for 7 days from sep 19 for withdrawals of the agreement, they should start sending out the final check this week right? Do any of you know... — read more 

Hello guys I see many of you lesser IPF (0.5 or 0.6% ) - which is for a bottom 5 to just move on. Move is ok , but I suppose you cant rejoin back anytime even when the company you join gets aquired by Cisco. Why isnt anybody not showing any anger on... — read more 

I've heard that the new guidance is to give RSUs to all GL10+ except to those on exceptionally low performance (pip or bottom 10%). Is that true

Hello hardworking sheeple, back from my 2 week vacation. Looking forward to getting back to my usual phone games and milk my sugar daddy Cisco. Deadwood over and out.

I wonder if the ELTever gets hate mail/email. They are worthless scum. I think we should replace them with millenials. Horrible people.

Heard from what I believe is a reliable source that only Directors and above will be getting RSU grants this year.

I'm going to make this short and sweet. Word of advice, if your manager is ALWAYS showing off and only talks about his/herself RUN and RUN HARD! This selfish person will not help you but his/her own self. Learn from an old Cisco sailor who's been... — read more 

Hello , from termination letter how to check if u r in bottom 5 or a LR ?

This week I heard from two sources, that directors were asked to prepare another lists for layoffs to execute in Q2 (as usual, after the earnings calls). Anyone heard something similar?