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.

Street surprised about our bad outlook because the rest of tech is recovering. Maybe the problem is us, not the market?!

Orders down 17% and terrible guidance-BIG LAYOFFS

Thank you, Cisco, for having layoffs so close to Thanksgiving. That's really kind and considerate of your employees' feelings. Truly. I think we should all be grateful for having such compassionate leadership, right? After all, who wouldn't want to... — read more 

Talent assessment 2 x year and employee will be able to see talent assessment results in workday. Employee has to acknowledge talent assessment results with manager. You own your career so it’s NOT your managers responsibility to promote you, it’s... — read more 

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AppD folks will be removed next year. Splunk guys will take over.

Trust me, Chuck Robbins’s favorite trick is to take something irrelevant out of context and repeat it over and over again until it is cited as established fact. This leads to an establishment of lies—lies that soon appear in everyday conversation as... — read more 

Bonus calculations for ELT use a CPF of 1.8 per proxy statement Rest of company - CPF of 1.29 SH, MM, JS, DS: IPFs 1.6, except CR's 2.6

Region consolidations are coming. A few regions will be parted out and absorbed into other regions. Those RMs and SEMs will be impacted. US Commercial hired new AMs and SAs at lower pay in order to layoff higher paid AMs and SAs.

This, my friends, is what's making Cisco rot from the inside. The technical debt is simply too humongous. Just the number of operating systems to maintain is testimony to how clueless the various CTOs have been: IOS-XE, IOS-XR, NXOS, ACI, Ubuntu... — read more 

Cisco has too many layers of fat. As a technical company, daily tasks are run by glorified secretaries AKA the project managers, copy and paste your work and package in an email and blast it out to different groups including upper management. ... — read more 

Need to know if I can buy that 100 inch tv?

There is this survey today, then another survey on the next day, and another survey next week. Cisco is such an unethical, toxic, political, outdated company with full of incompetent, clueless, just long-tenured managers and directors who are just... — read more 

It was very humbling today when I had a startup reach out for a 2 YOE role and the recruiter quoted me a base pay range that was double my total comp at Cisco (no kidding). For any sane person and under G10 you are likely missing out big time on... — read more 

Anyone know whats going on? Everyone is being moved to Bld 6

Last layoff for Dec 2022 and July 2023 were announced on Nov 16 2022. Let's see what Nov 2023 has in store for us.

There are more SE layoffs across direct and architectures coming as part of the Q1 Earnings Announcement and Restructuring. They are going to be mandating C2E due to this which means no pay and career advancement.

"Cisco has nothing left except WebEx. DC business lost to Arista and cloud. Security is PAN for business, Fortinet in public sector. Traditional telephony is RingCentral. One more generation of LAN engineers to go and Cosco will lose the LAN/Wan... — read more 

In IT , we have a Principal Engineer ( Grade 13 ) doing PM work . coordinating ,following up task completion and talking high level stuff and does not go into the weeds . is this common across Cisco and other companies ? Highly paid people surviving... — read more 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6yv-wU7tLY For those that have been laid off during their career, which path did you take and how did it work out in the long run?

My friend who's an RM caught wind that a hiring freeze could be on the horizon. We are trying to get clarity on "what" this means for internal candidates (if the freeze would only impact external roles). Has anyone heard anything?

While the work may not be exceptional, peoples helping nature and the unwavering dedication to customer satisfaction and the absence of concerns about layoffs or discrimination suggest that Arista is on track to eventually claim the top spot in the... — read more 

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/01/splunk-layoffs-7percent-of-workforce-to-be-cut-ahead-of-cisco-acquisition.html ...work years to hope to be aquired; then get RIF'd just as the aquistion occurs... Corporate America 2023

Another embarrassment by clueless Cisco CEO as Splunk already acting like Cisco

Got a message from my SVP that Jeff and he will update us this week on our sales transformation. Anyone knowing what will be announced?

http://cs.co/6008u5O7p WebEx folks, what do y'all think?

Try: #1 Commitment to no layoffs. That should not be that hard for a XX billion company. #2 Free food and all the other Google-like perks. Competitive salaries (I cry every night when I think about how much my friends at other companies make). #3... — read more