What is your direct experience with this situation at Cisco? What are the risks?

I've been hearing different rumors, I'm hoping somebody here can clear it up.

Did anyone catch the slide "Our People Landscape" during this week's Cisco Beat? I've seen more than a few posts here where commenters have said that it's an undocumented fact that Cisco is trying to lower the average age of its employees. I think... — read more 

Call it what it is -- this "shutdown" is just employee furlough. A forced pay cut.

Account SAs never got pooled and even TSAs are moving away from it.

Clearly Cisco wants to reduce the amount of accrued PTO that is sitting as a liability on the books. The inflexibility of mandatory PTO is not going over well with employees. Would Cisco move away from the accrued PTO model and adopt unlimited PTO?... — read more 

Did anyone hear all that talk about accountability and hybrid work agreements? They will be watching you. Get to work or they will find a way to LR you utilizing this new tool.

This is not the same company it was five years ago, not to mention a decade ago. The culture has changed drastically, the compensation is not nearly as competitive as it once was, and layoffs are always present, whether small, continuous ones, or... — read more 

Today’s meeting noted they reached the 1B goal early! Does that include those “Impacted” by LR’s? 😉 “We are committed to validating our impact We engaged global professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) LLP to conduct an independent... — read more 

Today’s beat said that we are to use 5 days in December/January and 5 days in July. This doesn’t seem to be a good thing.

I am currently seeing new reqs go live on the job board, yet they announced hiring changes last week, without any insight into "what" is being classified as critical... I'm in the interview process for a couple of roles (sales) and have been told... — read more 

One of my colleagues is deeply concerned about being placed on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP). His tasks have been assigned to someone else, leading to a decline in his perceived value within the team in terms of both work and responsibilities... — read more 

I guess the rsu vesting change is to retain older employees? Or push them out? Starting next Nov rsu will vest 100% if you leave and meet some age and service requirements

From the language, it seems like there are gonna be budget cuts coming. "Despite a strong Q1, we are also experiencing a temporary slowdown in customer demand, requiring an adjustment to our expenses. My leadership team and I are aligned on some... — read more 

It's been a joke Cisco is a tech. Look at the CEO, all he wants is looking for attention.

Section 7: “Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations to bargain collectively through representation of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of... — read more 

CEO Chuck Robbins' Total Compensation is 206% above industry average Shareholders don't want to see the CEO paid more than is normal for companies around the same size considering under performing

Field Sales Party with select employees AND spouses flying first class to Hawaii Sales down 20 percent, but don't worry, as the recent Layoffs will cover the $200M+ cost for this week's boondoggle

Seriously thinking in resigning soon and going to a competitor (Direct big competitor), and I don’t want to have a gap in my income, so thinking in quitting on Friday and starting on Monday with the new job. I was told Cisco will terminate you... — read more 

Cisco protects managers and long-tenured staff, by any means, no matter what, and justifies their bullying or harassing behaviors. That's what HR and Ethics do.

as a sales vet I love to be in front of customers. After the pandemic, I was out for 3-4 days a week again but what Jeff is asking us to do, is 2 more days training, new tools and processes with the result I hardly can go out meeting customers as... — read more 

Trying to invest my savings into NASDAQ: CSCO and hoping for a good return within a year... Thoughts?

Any idea how much is difference

I'm almost hoping to be laid off while severance is still somewhat decent. I've been hearing horror stories from friends who work at other companies where people with 10+ years would get four weeks and that's it. What are the chances something like... — read more 

Hi, My friend who works in a hedge fund told me that there is rumor in the market that some of the Cisco exec are in conversations with a potential buyer. I have a good chunk of Cisco in my portfolio after last week dip I was planning to dump it... — read more 

HR said: We have not found any evidence. We are satisfied that the investigation was conducted in an appropriate manner. You were not in a position to identify any witnesses to this allegation, nor did you provide the names of any colleagues you... — read more 

Because there is no one left in the company that can create strong, sustained growth, management can only squeeze out profits for Wall Street by cutting costs. The unfortunate reality is that continuous cost-cutting only exacerbates Cisco's... — read more 

Commercial consolidation and LRs are coming. The Commercial performance in Q1 was an all time worse. Too many old school AVPs, ODs, and RMs that are unwilling to change. Some of them are going to be managed out of the business. Each area is going... — read more 

Folks, I'm in a toxic team that is getting re-orged and I've been asked to look for new roles. My mental health is affected and I'm considering going on disability leave. Will I still be able to recruit for internal roles while on disability leave?... — read more 

Are these teams safe from layoffs? Is the work important? How is the culture in Bay Area?

Splunk Inc. and its directors allegedly misrepresented key details about a proposed acquisition of the company by Cisco Systems Inc. in a proxy filing, according to a shareholder lawsuit filed Friday. The software company and its board issued the... — read more 

To Cisco managers, You don't empower people with proper communication and action. But you still want people to be motivated. You are mediocre, but you want people to be excellent? Employees, be rod-valiant with these kinds of people and colleagues. — read more 

What changes upon 5 years at Cisco? Increased PTO or just increased ability to bank PTO? Anything else?

... wiping out 1 year of gains in a day. CSCO is such a stupid stock, doesn't even keep up with S&P growth. I'm holding about 3k stocks and feeling the pain of today's 12% drop 😓

It’s rare that I actually visit this site and read posts and comments; however the negative ranting and complaining is nothing but worthless bllsht. If you don’t like this company, leave and move on. For those of us that care about this company -... — read more 

Is anyone watching this? It seems so disconnected from the pressure of the work we have to do. In the few minutes I've had it playing in the background while working on numerous Powerpoints, prep for performance reviews, juggling meetings to be able... — read more 

anyone understands what most TAC are speaking?

IPF x company performance (0) = 0. Its going to be a lot of unhappy people Time to fire CR.