2024 H1B Data - Cisco H1B Data for 2024 (source below) Role (Count of Role) Grand Total (1,323) SOFTWARE ENGINEER (177) SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TECHNICAL LEADER (65) ENGINEERING PRODUCT MANAGER (44) TECHNICAL CONSULTING ENGINEER (38) SOFTWARE QA... — read more 

Can someone search the directory and tell me how many principal engineers Cisco got?

Arista keeps eating cisco lunch and growing top and bottom lines. Where is cisco ELT team plan?

Google updated their pay structure. 2 days later Amazon updated their pay structure. Cisco will update theirs next year. Are you telling me, this isn't coordinated?

After getting laid off how was the experience coming back as a contractor

Some came from the future, some from the same team and many had no idea what team they were on...

LinkedIn is flooded with Quantum Networking at Cisco. New hype? Latest buzzword? Do we even have a BU for quantum?

I keep hearing about some agentic AI security product that just passed its series B. Some security engineers under SS that got sc--wed over badly now running a competing company. Was this the Hypeshield team or some other group?

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Let’s talk about our feelings, emotions and general state of our mental health!

My directory (2x CCIE) told me this... Is this true?

Can this community share about Cisco’s main competitors pls. Who is taking market share? Who is mgmt most worried about? Appreciate your input!

BIC PAY Cisco TAC: $500 Regular $750 Holiday Palo Alto TAC: $1000

I hate saying this, but the paycheck is the only reason I’m still at Cisco. The money’s way better than anything I've been able to find right now, and that’s the sad part. It keeps me putting up with all the nonsense here. Maybe new hires don’t have... — read more 

What’s the latest now on this? A year ago it was all over the place - now it’s AI defense? Anyone tracking hype vs reality?

I have been asked by management to take my certification seriously. Does getting CCIE provide an extra layer of job security or any status or it’s just a bunch of baloney and gets me nothing. I know many very smart with CCIE were let go last year. ... — read more 

Huawei has first pick on China’s elite STEM talent — the largest STEM pool globally It operates like a monopsony on top-tier engineers Its org structure allows rapid reallocation of R&D to new product adjacencies Comparable to Samsung... — read more 

Cisco needs to look into the complete waste of the Chicago office. Those responsible for this should be LRd. The office is very under utilized. Cisco employees do not show up unless forced to. Customers do not want to come to the office.

Cisco has R & D expense of $8B in the income statement. Assuming 40k engineers world wide, the average CTS is $200k per engineer? Why Cisco needs to optimize this using layoffs?

I challenged KP, PJ and 4 of their lackeys to take GATE exam and score in top 10? What happened to the challenge?

So first draft submissions for the next LR have to be submitted in about 1 month, and leadership is hard looking at VTO. What I don't get is why. Excluding the obvious "lets fire whoever takes off the most time" what other reason would they want to... — read more 

Manger: I am concerned. Employee: about what? Manger (mysterious tone): you have kids, I cut your bonus. Employee: ok, I understand. Employee called zorro and moved on faster than you can say PolO. What a pice of cr-p of a company. Manger got... — read more 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-has-reached-out-china-talk-tariffs-state-media-says-2025-05-01/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/01/us-has-approached-china-seeking-talks-on-trump-tariffs-says-state-social-media

Pre sales, post sales and network support and consulting roles, all soon reclassified as Solutions Engineer. Matrix organization, multiple heads to drive sales and CX, while layers of management made redundant. Good luck all.

How much do these guys give you? One million. Wow I don’t make this money in 10 years here. Yup. Apriillll fooooool.

Big changes happening at the end of Q4. No advance warning this time, no packages to most, just adios

Is it actually being mandated? Has anyone just decided that knot go in to the office? Anyone quitting? Anyone being fired? What about folks outside of 40 miles?

Confirmed from a friend of mine in WPR. What’s left (and there isn’t much) to be vacated this fall and the real estate sold to a data center company.

As part of the LRs and Restructuring that is coming as a part of FY26, SEs are going to be pooled. Here are the main reasons this decision has come about. SE leadership from SEMs, SSEMs, and SEDs, have focused too much on making SEs mini-AMs... — read more 

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeetupatel_one-of-the-biggest-lessons-i-learned-when-activity-7315171315848564736-Aut9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAACDaEwBIDy572DvoEQFOcNQirva4grYLLQ From the marketing genius or id--t who posts... — read more 

President Trump, As U.S. tech giants like Cisco shift more of their software development overseas, it’s not just American jobs that hang in the balance—it’s trust, security, and strategic capability. While software may dodge tariffs by flowing... — read more 

Praying for all those in engineering groups

They plan to cut 20% of staff, that brings the revenue per employee to $800k. The long term goal is to achieve $1M revenue per employee.

What grade level is a product manager and what grade level is a senior product manager at cisco?

Can anyone tell what is the target bonus for principal engineer in San Jose.

Just heard that it has started layoff. They have notified the exec leader who got impacted. Do not know what will happen to his team any idea?

You could be at Intel right now. 20k job cuts

This will be an ugly one. 5000 worldwide. Failed RTO is the cause.