They state clearly they don't care about skills or experience. All they care about is if you kiss their fat behinds: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cisco-top-exec-amazon-andy-090300655.html Sold all 3,000 shares of my Cisco stock today and put it... — read more 

cisco’s elt decided to blow $28 billion on splunk right before a downturn but don’t worry, they’ll be fine... (splunk will be, in hindsight, the aquisition that ki-led cisco)... and yet... splunk was a fine company with good products, but now cisco... — read more 

The BU I work in at Cisco is being slowly replaced by Infosys contractors in India. It is a slow, but certain, death. The worst part is leadership will not tell us how long we have left.

An extremely tough tech market given pending layoffs across the Industry. The job market has officially collapsed https://www.theverge.com/news/603432/google-voluntary-exit-platforms-devices-team

I dealt with Cisco for 5 years now and this place gets more toxic by the day! I fu--ing quit because you guys don’t deserve any fu--ing noticed like how you guys lay people office with no notice. Fu--ing outta here! This would probably get deleted... — read more 

Apparently Chuck recently “recommended” during a visit to a European country that all employees should show up at the office if they want to build a career at Cisco. Is RTO coming soon, or will Cisco adopt a model similar to the one Dell has in... — read more 

Cisco is not included in NVIDIA’s AI Enterprise Reference Architecture, which may limit their involvement in certain large-scale AI training... — read more 

There’s is this weird culture around being a Cisco family but I hate everyone one of you. I guess it’s not a real family unless you dislike your family members right?

I pretend to be busy even though I’m not. I barely work and no one knows what I do. Perks of flying under the radar.

Then account does their magic on financial short falls and decide how much extra baggage need removed in LR. Soon the list is finalized and folks impacted get a plug-in to monitor their PC and devices. This is now standard practice and everyone is... — read more 

Is someone deleting the posts regarding layoffs or genuinely no layoffs this time ? My management says nothing will be gonna there.

CONGRATS !!!!!! https://www.forbes.com/lists/canada-best-employers/

https://www.greatplacetowork.com/best-workplaces/millennials/2024 Let's welcome our new millennials with what employees say [I'm quite sure that will attract even further millennials]: I always feel well taken care of at this company. Cisco has not... — read more 

Would you figure it would be the same around last August/Sept? This is for the Splunk side anticipating a layoff 2 months because of the WARN act (1 month as of notice, 1 more month) 3-4 months severance if you sign a waiver Are all RSUs lost... — read more 

I posted about an engineer tipping us off on layoffs next week by his boss. I said take it with a gain of salt. This forum deletes my post automatically, again. Something is up.

From Splunk blind app (take with any grain of salt you have): "Glad to have worked with you all. My manager just dropped a bo-b on me that there will be layoffs next week and gave me the heads up to start applying for other jobs now. I have been... — read more 

Hearing layoff consultation emails to go out in Feb and termination interviews in April. Anyone hear any other updates in the UKI market?

Cisco stock just went off a cliff. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/tech-stocks-tank-as-us-ai-dominance-no-longer-a-sure-bet/ar-AA1xWlXu

https://www.zscaler.com/zscaler-vs-cisco Let go of Cisco Umbrella SIG and overcome! A lack of security service edge (SSE) vision Secure web gateway (SWG) is crucial to security service edge (SSE), but Cisco introduced SWG only recently in... — read more 

Hi folks - 2025 personnel changes will resemble 2024 but changes will be more about streamlining the workforce to align with the vision of being AI-centric. No big news with this, I believe almost everyone knows this. But what may be helpful is... — read more 

I’m one of the few who genuinely loves my job. It’s interesting, pays well, and I have great coworkers. If it weren’t for the constant threat of layoffs hanging over our heads, it’d be a dream job for me. I see a lot of people here hoping the company... — read more 

As an SE in US Commercial, which I don’t share which area, operation, or select region, it is ridiculous that we are on a region goal and are expected to help our AEs, but we never get paid. We get paid only on the region attainment. I have the... — read more 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-freedom-of-speech-and-ending-federal-censorship/

After LR's the amount of things piling up and being missed is nuts. Im not working harder and faster and longer because they let so many people go. I was already doing more before all this now its just silly. All the talk about taking on more for our... — read more 

Is Cisco doing better this quarter? Stock looks good and no more pressure to recognize revenue asap near the end or the Q

I know its performance improvment but unsure how its used to LR somebody as an alternative way to let people go. Especially if youre doing your job well all along.

Such great things happening right now

Chuck said in April 2020 that Cisco, unlike others, will not layoff people during the lockdowns. Guess what happened 4 months later after August? One of the massive layoffs at Cisco. Here’s a hint: Chuck lies. Repeatedly. Always. If he says... — read more 

No Lr in Feb. Confirmed by Chuck in Emea all hands.

It’s s will understood Cisco has a strong Networking and Network Security offering, why doesn’t Cisco do a better job of promoting its AI Networking offering.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/01/22/cisco-ceo-chuck-robbins-on-impact-of-tariffs-ai-innovation-and-future-of-dei.html We'll call someone.. Sure you will - LMAO GET RID OF YOUR DEI POLICIES NOW, Get you butt back to the US and RUN YOUR BUSINESS ... — read more 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/business/trump-dei-corporate-reaction.html Thoughts?

Over two years, I’ve seen Cisco let go of incredible teammates, people who always gave their all. Watching that play out, how am I supposed to care anymore? Giving my best feels pointless. I just want out of here and to land somewhere that actually... — read more