I keep hearing the same points, misses every qtr and year after year. ... Liz as the CSO has no achievement or track record of success either. This company has the most pathetic board full of old timer su-k-ups.

It's just a corporation that owns a bunch of switching & routing patents obtained from acquisitions. The company sells & markets legacy network equipment that was obtained through acquisitions. Cisco never transitioned into software, cloud... — read more 

Folks, just had my 1 on 1 with my manager and he said that my compensation is too low to be promoted to the next grade. Was really looking forward to this. Is this even possible or it's a possible bluff? What are your views you all? Straight off... — read more 

While Sales struggling with integrating Splunk to gain any up tick in revenue. Major changes expected to straighten this ship if it could be accomplished. This is a do or perish moment for once a highest valued company in its glory days. Cisco story... — read more 

when a dying company at its lifecycle, Tom Brady would be hired giving motivational speech to prolong life. Remember Tom Brady is for dying companies. Tom Brady position would be similar to a priest from church giving speech at the funeral wake. — read more 

https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-nvidia-history-demise-cisco-sun-microsystems-2024-6

Seen a few of these at Cisco. Typically the layoffs have a package and employees either resist and challenge or accept the package and leave. There is apparently a third alternative where employees continue to stay on directory unassigned to any work... — read more 

Hear me out here... I spend at least 30 minutes a day, just looking up the hundreds of acronyms each program uses to explain their ideas. Most of those acronyms have 5 different matches in our acronym tool. So then I spend another 20 minutes... — read more 

Next week we will hear how the future plans are unfolding for CX. Let’s hope some leaders will be held accountable for the mess they created/supported. If not, can’t understand how CX moves forward. These aren’t new problems. They are long standing... — read more 

Specifically in what I’m seeing it’s Indian leaders blocking moves to other teams. Some of these moves are very clearly for the benefit of the business and the people would do better on the new team. Where another leader is coming to them to advocate... — read more 

I have left Cisco and became a programmer. Yesterday i shared a great Python post here. but it was deleted. I mean people not only need a place to talk but also need some guide if there's layoff. not sure why my post was deleted.

And send more jobs overseas?

Jensen Huang the CEO of NVIDA is at HPE discover keynote 2 days ago in Las Vegas Tom Brady was at Cisco Live Keynote 3 weeks ago at the same location in Las Vegas you see the difference? no true tech person/company wants to be associated to CSCO — read more 

Is there a possibility that this is true?

I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday.

I hate to be so negative but from where I sit I mostly see people who are riding out the ends of their career or people who are working on immigration status. So many top engineers moved on a long time ago and enticing new ones to join is nearly... — read more 

we are no policy makers at Cisco, not happy with current status? move on

Impressions from CLUS 2024 Everything is around AI and Security, HW business is out of spotlight. It seems that Splunk acquired Cisco and not the opposite. GS behaves as the big boss of overall business. Challenging times is a head of us....

"Some of the activities that contributed to this achievement include: Gender changing surgery policies, the visible support from ELT, our LGBTQ+ Social Justice Fund, the launch of Pronouns in our Cisco Employee Directory, Cisco’s Self-ID program, and... — read more 

Changing the CEO is too late. The best option for Cisco is to sell or spin off all the companies it acquired and then sell the core routing/switching business to Arista or another successful company. It is time for Cisco itself to be acquired.

Anyone with any clue as to what is happening in the tech industry knows Cisco is just managing its decline. However, that doesn't preclude Cisco from being extremely profitable for senior executives. This is why they can still get people to sign... — read more 

Does anyone know what needs to be fixed to get the ship to turn 180 degrees? Impossible to move this massive disaster. Here is an interesting article that has been recently floating... — read more 

Will rather Meraki folks or Cisco Classic folks be impacted? and by when? I heard that people in Australia have been affected due to the NX organization. There are a lot of redundancies in the current setup. For example too many people are getting... — read more 

Because Chucky doesn’t sell and doesn’t get anything.

Recruited called and and first two rounds went well. Do you recommend this company or this will become another dumpster?

Chuck Robbins doesn't have the technical vision to lead CSCO. With him at the helm, CSCO plays perpetual catchup with the industry trends. They missed cloud network (Arista dominates that space). They missed video conferencing (Zoom was worth more... — read more 

From what was posted here on July 15 we will see the earnings. What is going to happen after that ? How long till they tell us that there will be more LRs (like we don't know already) and how long till they start doing it ?

Why would this board delete a Cisco LinkedIn post? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cisco_ciscopride-activity-7207352893098577921-9kK7?utm_source=li_share&utm_content=feedcontent&utm_medium=g_mb_web&utm_campaign=copy

The board has no technical people. Says a lot. https://investor.cisco.com/news/news-details/2024/Cisco-Appoints-Ekta-Singh-Bushell-to-Board-of-Directors/default.aspx

15th July will be deadly blow again, List is getting prepared.. All the Best everyone..

Guys there is too much negativity here Please take care of your mental health Seriously though It is an insult to have mental health events and care programmes when: you didn't know if you were in it not you still don't know if you are in... — read more 

From Chuck's perspective, he personally makes $500 Million+ over 10 years without the added stress of creating shareholder value because of the RSU's. He just needed a few things 1) Mckinsey/Consultants to tell him what he needs to know, sound bites... — read more 

Some one commented Cisco is better than oracle, now look at OCI employees. They are going have quality horizontal time tonight.

Has anyone else been requested by Cisco HR not to contact past and current employees of Cisco ?

And the rest were sent packing through LR last couple years. Very sensible plan from Cisco to pay more to those selected hoping to cash on revenue. But no, it turned out to be just another bad decision by leadership like many before. With no revenue... — read more 

When all you do is buying and integrating with other companies, it becomes very difficult to manage, spending money buying is less than 50% of the efforts, integrating is headache, that’s why a company like Cisco has too many project managers who are... — read more 

Ok, what are these folks up to? https://outshift.cisco.com/our-team

Chuck needs to get fired, this board has a bunch of non product people who are failing investors and making foolish decisions Chuck’s resume as CEO: Missed cloud SBG no growth - too late to make dent now Apps and FSO failure No aaS... — read more 

CSCO in last year = -9.63% stock. Last 5 years? = -18.33%. Meanwhile NVDA, ANET, BRCM, DELL, HPE, SMCI, PSTG, PANW... many more up so much more. CSCO claims to be a leader in AI.... yet they dont have any products while all above are marching out... — read more 

@nickrusso42518 has passed away - Big loss for his family, Cisco, and Networking community.