Wat is ur prediction?

Biggest problem with GSSO is the fact that they are overlay, and they don’t hold responsibility and account relationship. CSS merely an opportunity coordinator that helps account team to get TSA resources, and they are just throwing all the work to... — read more 

This company is getting rid of managers - sweet deal Cisco do this https://fortune.com/europe/2024/04/11/pharmaceutical-giant-bayer-ceo-bill-anderson-rid-bosses-staff-self-organize-save-2-billion/

EC and TS have decimated security sales. 3 LRs and 4th LR is in the works. CSSs and engineers cannot be experts in 30 solutions. No other competitor has their sales and engineers trying to be experts in everything. Even PAN has their specialists... — read more 

To Cisco folks who are unhappy and are under stress due to the perpetual layoff culture and because of the total lack of appreciation of their values as professionals: If you believe you are good, possess up-to-dated skillsets relevant to current... — read more 

OpenAI is the hottest company in the world, if you have the skill sets, maybe you can try: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3915654057 I have left Cisco but I do appreciate for all the help I receive from Cisco colleagues. Hope it helps. Be... — read more 

Corporate renegade, some may know him personelly and most of us will know him with this blog name Corporate renegade. He is fine and doing well. Not interest anymore after JC left but he as still good connections in HQ and Atlanta.....Board concern... — read more 

Security sales hit definitely in upcoming May LR. They are going to transfer the accounts to Splunk people in any account where there is an overlap and get rid of the Cisco employees . So, you should know who you are. Heads up to update your CVs and... — read more 

Chambers Built a good Bench Strength of CEO Material folks in line for succession Unlike Chambers , Current CEO has removed all if not Most of folks who could succeed him . succession cast Jonathan Liz Jeetu Fran Jeff Thimaya Anyone else... — read more 

The death spiral has already started. When a company stops caring about retaining talent and instead focuses exclusively on retaining and hiring the cheapest workforce, then its days are numbered. Cisco might be too big to fail completely, but our... — read more 

There is a big time layoff coming in CX and PX engineering/PMO with latest restructuring. With no ROI in CX on the offering and Cisco unable to sell and increase revenue. ELT has to make tough decision to blow the whistle. Where all engineering... — read more 

Is there any evidence or anything pointing to this?

Hapless, sales driven leadership, who grew up in the 90s cisco, now betting it all on too-late me-too acquisitions in an attempt to silver-bullet salvage some degree of shareholder value at the expense of talented engineers, field teams and loyal... — read more 

Are you ready or you don't care anymore?!?

More and more people have stopped giving a damn and it’s obvious...

How many impacted employees do we think will be announced on the May earnings? I have a feeling it will be on par or larger than last quarters. You can't spend 28 billion and keep everything the same.

As an experienced professional with multiple CCIEs and many years in the industry, I'm concerned about the quality of hiring and management decisions being made in our region. Our one-on-one meetings with the manager seem to lack focus on... — read more 

So many companies are posting jobs but they're not actively hiring. Does anybody know why this is happening?

Is a Sr Manager is a leadership role, then what are the roles sr director and above? Sr Manager is entry-level manager role and not a leadership role. For that matter, anyone can call himself as a leader irrespective of his title.

Expecting a sales kick-off this year or is there too much kicking-out to sort through before hand?

Do people get a pat on the back if they post some of the propagandistic drivel I've been reading on LinkedIn lately? It's beyond pathetic. If it were only HR folks, I'd understand. But it's not. Reading it, people from outside would get a completely... — read more 

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1seDLhmb

Unable to handle the work pressure along with few personal issues. Is there a Cisco policy for short term leave, as I don't want to quit just need few months to reset.

On what basis directors in CX and PX are spared with all restructuring and redundancy Cisco should have optimized by firing the engineering managers and directors. They have been running as their kingdoms. Though the split and merge happens why Cisco... — read more 

Cisco employees are REQUIRED to take 4 days of PTO between July 1-5. PTO will be auto loaded in workday next week.

ASA What kind of company would even use Cisco ASA? No wonder you been hacked

Chuck been on the call for the first 15 minutes rubbing it in everyone's face about all of the travel he is doing, meeting the pope, etc. yet we won't let our sellers travel to their customers to sell business...this ELT is so egotistical it is... — read more 

God, Chuck is not inspiring at all. The opposite in fact. You’d think they could at least hire someone with charisma for the job.

Has anyone heard of increase in PIPs recently? I have heard this is happening more often with a May 15th deadline for “voluntary separation”. Is that true?

Cisco's weekend pay rate of $500 lags behind competitors like Palo Alto, which pays $1200, making it hard to understand why this company hasn't adjusted its compensation to match industry standards...

He is being put on notice period for creating politics and doing visible discrimination and favoring his own old gang. Complaint was raised by a senior engineer to SVP cc’ing other big shots. Wake up guys

Heavily loafed and one useless box Cisco should bring new leadership to change nexus 9k products

Did anyone get their RSU award this cycle? Or is it post earnings?

I saw a brutal but honest (and completely by the book) review the other day and when I was looking at Glassdoor again today, it's gone. I know that there's a note on the front page that companies can't delete stuff from there, but it seems to me that... — read more 

Heard CX is on a hiring freeze with the caveat that apparently each region has the right to change that…find that odd. Also heard V2MAMA is officially gone Any other rumors worth discussing??

I am very curious what these ELT trip achieve They all speak about platform, AI, security Concepts which are important but no one talks about execution Anyway with pressure for numbers hope she sees the big 5

What are the Q3 earnings expectations? With splunk acquisition and money committed to LRs around 800mil, I cannot expect a positive earnings. Are we looking at layoffs announcements the day of or after ?

Is Cisco FSO truely working at the capacity the marketing is leading us to believe or is there some smoke and mirrors happening? Hearing of some very large enterprise customers being supplied extra Cisco engineering resources as it’s not meeting... — read more 

They announced layoffs in Nov 2022. Those layoffs kept happening company wide since May 2023. They claimed this was part of the the same LR announced in Nov 2023. Then, few months later, they announced LR again after Q4 and laid people off. That went... — read more