This time is different. Cisco has forever damaged their credibility in the eyes of current and future employees with their LR cadence. I have spoken to individual contributors, first line managers, senior managers, business development, partner... — read more 

We might get a break here and there, but we are now at the point of no return. Layoffs will never fully stop. They have become synonymous with the Cisco way. It is just who we are now, sadly.

I read it is 4.5% base, If someone's base is $300k, will cisco match $13.5k per year.

Tell me your thoughts.

NVidia is riding the AI bubble. Jensen is correct that NVidia wont suffer the same fate as Cisco. It will be far worse. Sorry fan boys.

NVIDIA Spectrum-X : Ethernet on steroids for cloud AI aka: Cisco Crusher "Nvidia Hires Top Cisco Inventor for Ultra Ethernet Networking" "Nvidia joins Ultra Ethernet Consortium" A fully standards-based Ethernet with support for open Ethernet... — read more 

Clam down, I’m only joking.

Got a very senior job with a competitor. Planning to give my notice in 8 weeks. Is it OK to tell me boss my plans so they can give my stock bonus to the rest of the team? It would be a fair bit of money since we are one G12 and a ton of G8s.

https://www.crn.com/news/networking/2024/nvidia-hires-lead-cisco-inventor-amid-big-networking-sales-push

AI = LLM LLM = hallucinations, model collapse, extraordinary energy consumption (Training and Inference), regulatory risk, copyright risk, legal risk, societal pushback. the amount of money invested vs the actual predicted potential return is... — read more 

.... we are really sorry but this is a tech company and you su-k! You simply don't have the right skills. So get with the program - or else." Never mind that our failed CX strategy around MM and her cronies caused the "support overhead", and never... — read more 

As an old software engineer with 20 years of experience at Cisco, never login leetcode website before, will definitely get zero score when the young interviewers show the leetcode questions…

What happens to funds contributed to FSA, if last day of employment is 11/15. Will I loose amount contributed for last 1.5 months, since there is no more pay check?

Is AppD finished? $3.7B gone / spoof? Where is the accountability? Where is Chuck / Ronak / Liz?

Economist predicts economic collapse as AI Revolution is mostly smoke and mirrors: finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-only-5-jobs-says-130000997.html?Ponzi+Scheme

Cisco used to be a solid, predictable job in a legacy IT company. Cisco used to be in the news regularly as an economic bellweather. Cisco used to occupy part of the top 5 in several categories. Now, Cisco is almost never mentioned in economic... — read more 

Yes, layoffs might be done, but we all know it's just for now. Job security doesn't exist anymore at Cisco. The best way to create your own job security is to keep looking for better options outside of this place. I haven't stopped applying and I... — read more 

One ruined Cisco with terrible AI strategy and Splunk and in progress to sc--w up CX Other just covers up and talks around the truth

As long as Cisco continues treating employees as an expense instead of a valuable asset, this will not be a good place to work. The moment the focus shifted to cutting costs through layoffs instead of investing in the workforce to ensure better... — read more 

If affected by LR but get hired at a new job before the 11/15 date- can I still get paid through 11/15 with Cisco ?

Did they announce hybrid work during the Cisco beat? I had to step out, but when I came back I saw talk in the chat about hybrid work and Fran stating the benefits of it. Is hybrid going to be for certain roles only, or expanded to everyone?

These are the teams that staffed projects for the Professional Services Delivery Engineers. Projects are getting impacted, milestones delayed and rev rec delayed, customers are pi---d No plan B in place so hundreds of Resource Requests for projects... — read more 

Cisco Is Too Late To Become A Big AI Winner https://seekingalpha.com/article/4724424-cisco-is-too-late-to-become-a-big-ai-winner

Today at Cisco Beat, G said the 3 others (we all know who they are) where out with customers…. Why are they so coward? They can do LR´s but not face it in front of the ones left? Do they think we are st..pid and believe what they tell us? If they... — read more 

The big issue with Cisco is its lack of transparency. Yes, the company announced layoffs in advance but then kept everything else under wraps. It boils down to management not trusting us and loving to keep us in the dark. This is not how you empower... — read more 

And we are expected to pick it up. I’m not doing it. If there is more work than people, then they shouldn’t have laid the people off.

Chuck, Scott, and G2 aren’t even on it. They are “on the road with customers”. Un-freaking-believable.

Met some people at management level last week here. Consensus is 15% to 35% cut. Nit sure which end of that range is closer to truth. Another couple of weeks and we’ll know. Reached out to someone who used to work here but left couple of years ago... — read more 

Our global team of 14 answers a mail box where we get max 25 emails a day. I personally answer 2-3 emails a day and only clock about a hours worth of work a day. Most of our team is on over 6 figures also. Not sure how we got missed.

Though it is a balance between OPEX and CAPEX to cut the cost and make street happy. The primary reason is wherever there is a filth red badge, the blue badges don't work and they take it granted which leads to such situation. Take for example the... — read more 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4f4THr0KA

Not a long timer so no idea where this falls ?

I have pile of work assigned. Need to spend time to prepare and get the fu-k out.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/26/73percent-of-amazon-workers-considering-quitting-after-5-day-rto-mandate.html

Any reason this couldn’t have been built in US? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKn0vS46IOI

Cisco used to have a prestigious reputation, but now it feels like a company that's eating itself alive. There's way too much process and all the room for individualism or innovation that once made this place great has been removed. I don't know... — read more 

Intersting: https://youtu.be/uOIPmQrrgnQ?si=zA_ZOVubL5_Ppro_

The economy seems to have taken a big downturn since original LRs were announced. Should we expect more LRs coming?