Party time at Chuck E. Cheese = LR announcements.

An HR person whom I've never even spoken with listed several things that I never even did to anyone, and this HR person emailed me to sign to resign "voluntarily." Those items listed are all complete fabrication! I've been harassed by HR for... — read more 

We are getting taken advantage of and have to worry about layoffs every quarter. If we had a union we could have some peace and job security. Many people shirked at the idea but those impacted and especially those that can’t find work wished they... — read more 

Cisco is the best place to work in the US and the UK apparently, according to Glassdoor. Can't wait for our UK SE director to go on LinkedIn and do the customery whoopee round. Manage upwards and brown nose at every possible opportunities while... — read more 

What happened to the iot guy?

More IPOs coming this year after dry season in 2023. Reddit seems to be a sure thing, ServiceTitan and Stripe probable. It might sound off topic, but I think it shows the direction of tech industry. Interesting... — read more 

Synergy in M&A market. If this is true then HPE is gearing for Cisco. 50% of telco business is run on Juniper. It will be interesting to see, if HPE does acquire Juniper, how this will impact their roadmap. But HPE has storage, HPC (supercomputing)... — read more 

Whats your take on the company? Has anyone here worked with the founders of nile secure? If so, what is your opinion of them?

Crazy to see coming back from shutdown that my leadership is setting up an in depth development discussion with the entire team THIS WEEK....we do 1:1 talent assessments, but now we are going in depth and need to have 6-12 month performance metrics... — read more 

Remember it is your manager making the decision if you're being LR'd or not, HR lackeys are only messengers or running dogs of your managers.

Ex-Cisco here, former SE/SA/CCIE/etc -- I got caught in the LR last year, and at the time, it was a tough adjustment after 10+ years. I feel better now, and can see clearly now that it took time to clear out the Cisco mist. A few words .... We... — read more 

Eye opener. 18 in HR. If layoffs announced with Feb 15 earnings, when would notifications go out to impacted individuals?

Cisco's growth is not through technology, it is through stock which a not sustainable growth. Only a matter of time before it completely shuts down. Everything you see of a dying company, the sudden of tribal work environment and constant... — read more 

I plan to Join Cisco, rather than asking for a fixed package, can I ask for pay greater than the max pay of a few people I know as they are mediocre and I feel I should be paid more than them? Did anyone try this before?

Cisco HR, a.k.a., People & Communities, (all regions in US, Asia, EMEA) does anything unethical, unreasonable, even Illegal to get rid of talented, skilled employees just because HR thinks they are "unfit" for the Cisco culture. Obviously, the... — read more 

Have you heard anything about potential Cisco layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?

What are the rules for getting the mid-year bonus? I heard your last day has to be on or after Q3 start (January 28th). Is this still correct?

Layoffs are coming, whether it's going to happen in January or July. The best way to stay prepared is to have options. Start looking for a job right now even if you are not planning to leave unless forced out. Make sure that you have an option B and... — read more 

I am from people & community and doing this out of good faith. It's well known that Cisco has to get rid of thousands of employees in Jan 2024 because they missed analyst expectations. What's unethical is they're forcing employees on PIP... — read more 

Takes $250 million machine to make core piece of GPU In Navidia. Sure Cisco is in AI too, selling $5,000 per piece of hardware can build AI, it’s the biggest joke. Cisco wants to be in every piece of hot technology.

If there is any chance of changing things around in 2024, getting rid of lower and middle management who provide little to no value by creating some random slides and assign work to others would be a good start. Way too many non technical who can't... — read more 

Cisco is one of the case studies mentioned in the latter part of the video for what may be about to happen to the biggest players in technology, many of which have already run out of growth. The title of the video is *Market Saturation = 98.9% -... — read more 

Just FYI to all ex-Cisco employees who frequent this site. LR list for Jan/Feb is almost complete. It will be a bloodbath. I wont be checking emails for 2 weeks, in fact, I powered down my Cisco laptop and put it in the attic so I don't accidently... — read more 

every quarter before fiscal quarter ended, Cisco will have at least one acquisition announcements to staging and distract their bad earnings and bad performances. Why don't you make acquisition announcements right after the earnings... — read more 

Is that still happening and I'm just unlucky to have an a--hole manager who keeps promising me a promotion but never goes through with it or is this more of a Cisco-wide problem? I'm curious why anybody would continue working here if it really takes... — read more 

What is this bull about Service Level Objective (SLO)? Customer has an RMA, there is no stocks of that part number (FPR2k!) in the Depot. Sales gets escalated. and Services team start educating sales that our Smartnet is actually based on SLO, and... — read more 

In a time today where our customers are looking for simplicity and cost savings, we are trying to shove premium services down their throat for ~20% move than the cost of smartnet and driving 100% attach….we wonder why we are losing service customers... — read more 

We need a hiring freeze and instead, all I'm seeing is new people joining Cisco. How is this going to prevent future layoffs? I thought it was determined we have too many employees. Adding more is certainly not going to solve that issue. Just pull... — read more 

Must be nice… https://finance.yahoo.com/news/insider-sell-evp-cfo-richard-120148320.html

I'm just going to leave this here: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/15/tech-layoffs-2023-list/ Next time y'all go thinking only Cisco does LRs, go visit that site. It's the only way corporate America knows.

Good. It's good to know that the younger generations are smarter than us. Work what you are paid for and that's it.

It is abundantly clear that the PAN playbook brought in by the former PAN sales and engineering “leaders” is NOT working. All these massive changes and it is a disaster. The numbers do not lie. They are now planning for their third LR in Q3. That... — read more 

Can you guys share a typical package for a principal engineer role? I gave an interview with security BU and it went well. 23 years of experience overall, I am currently with a competitor with the same title.

There are a bunch of openings posted on the door at RCDN. Strange thing is that I cannot find them on the jobs site. Is this by design?

Sold more than 3 million but hasn’t bought any stock? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/insider-sell-evp-chief-legal-200105553.html

Cisco Market CAP: $202B ZS: $30B PANW: $100B JNPR: $9B ANET: $71B HPE: $22B Total competitor market cap exceeded Cisco. This doesn't count numerous other networking vendors.

Raised a case about multiple harassments and bullying by my boss. HR and Employee Relations said to me weeks later that they investigated and conducted hearings from various people, but they could not confirm and did not admit those multiple... — read more 

I hope you like having your metrics tracked, because if you thought sales was already micromanaged…you ain’t seen nothing yet. Tune in tomorrow.

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I recently left Cisco EMEA because of the terrible downsides of their culture. It can be a fun place to work, but NOBODY has agency to actually make decisions. Any leadership team up to the EMEA SLT is only talking but not making decisions. Feels... — read more