That is good news!

You can’t argue with the numbers.

Colette Kress was at Cisco from late 2010 to September 2013. She was the Senior vice president and chief financial officer of the Business Technology and Operations Finance organization. This is what she got to experience during her time at... — read more 

Cisco: $85M in Penalties Since 2000 According to Good Jobs First's Violation Tracker, Cisco Systems and companies currently under its ownership have accumulated approximately $85M in penalties across 8 cases since 2000. Here's the... — read more 

I keep seeing G2 in this board. Please give me some hints or at least the initials of their name. Since Extreme might be acquired by Cisco, I need to get used to the Cisco message board!

Do managers have their lists yet? Anyone gotten a meeting thrown on their calendar after earnings? Hearing conflicting info on whether it will be 11/13 or 11/17

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/cisco-chief-terminate-meeting-certain-080300861.html Can you believe it? He doesn't like niche acronyms...so kewl -- Let's reframe this: Cisco leader acts irrationally in meetings and hires timid &... — read more 

Hello Everyone , I am sure you have heard that news that White House is talking to IBM. IBM has asked all the H1Bs and I-140 approved people to resign or move back to home country. Wondering why and how it will affect Cisco. This is happening... — read more 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/07/israel-intelligence-cisco-gaza-palestine

Everyone is at risk, although it would be insane to assume everyone is at equal risk. I'd expect more reasons than I list below, but these are the ones I saw when I was there. Reasons people get picked off one by one: You just aren't meeting the... — read more 

Does it have to be only managers who can fail up? Is that a rule or something?

I am on the outside, i was discarded earlier in the year. I was just watching the Cisco Live Melbourne key note - i enjoy self flagellation Are any of the products real? At my new job could i buy and deploy AgenticOps? Or it is the same... — read more 

Until after earnings?

Amazing times.

Massive consolidation in the dc space. Makes sense and nutanix is cheap.

Is Grade 6 - 8 non technical at risk for the next LR Don’t say “everyone is at risk” , I’m trying to understand who is targeted the most

https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/cisco-fortinet-eye-extreme-networks-buy-report-states/

If you look up the distribution, some have say 40,000 personnel, some have like only 400. Why not reduce footprint? - move these to capital cities etc

Are they for real or fake? I am just surprised with how many jobs need to be filled while we are LR-ing so many. Makes no sense.

Can someone with real info explain how layoffs work and what the likelihood of a November layoff is? I understand the stock price is dropping, but in the context of other tech stocks, it’s really not dropping that much. Also, aren’t these things... — read more 

Good grief. Tech is fu---d.

If you get a meeting for the 17th, you know why.

Any info on layoffs? And if so, are they looking at AI usage as a factor?

The blue tsunami turned Csco red.

1 week out from earnings and vibes feel better than usual on my team. Maybe no big LR?

201 types of managers. 47 meetings. 19 approval chains. 12 PowerPoints. 1 technical guy doing the actual work. 💀 Engineering Manager Senior Engineering Manager Software Development Manager Hardware Engineering Manager Technical... — read more 

For those who may have to consider this in the next round of layoffs, here are the low, low prices for 2027 under-65 RMAP health insurance plans: For "retiree" only: $28,152 per year for PPO, $23,952 for HPSP For "retiree" + spouse, or + 1 child: ... — read more 

Want to reduce LRs? Just promote terrible VPs who drive everyone to quit. It has to be the reason Cisco promotes people who are utterly clueless and have no track record of success to VP positions. The vile VP then lords over everyone, drunk on... — read more 

If you've been laid off, how long were you out of work before finding another position? Did you end up making less, about the same, or more money?

Relying on vibe coding??? Fu-k off with that. This used to be a serious place, now it's a joke.

Are LRs truly random? Last time my org was impacted they made a big deal saying nothing was performance based, but why would that be?

You're in charge of everything - for 6 months. In that 6 months you can implement, change, remove, add > basically do anything, at all, at any speed, and at any cost. Name what you would do. No limit.

Cisco chief found a 27-year-old ex-founder ‘buried away in the organization doing something unstrategic’—now the Gen Zer is rewriting 98% of its... — read more 

SBG to cut all US contractors!

Need genuine advice. Started here at the start of the fiscal year, I’m young and this is my first role post grad. I don’t make a ton, but can honestly say I’m terrified for earnings and worry about job security. Do I stick it out for a few years to... — read more