Seems to be the case. Reports from your area?

From 2% growth in one of the hottest technology markets to the 2 ex-PANers leading GSSO that have put GSSO on an accelerated downward spiral that has GSSO losing more than ever before. Only 2% growth is literally embarrassing. That is completely... — read more 

Heard a rumor it’s getting canned. Any truth to this?

GSSO is pooling the TSAs now because PAN already does.

Software is being trialed now.

Instead of investing in SAs, Millions were wasted on C2E that was only about an Executive’s ego and nothing to do with helping customers and SAs / TSAs. Now that all this money has been wasted on C2E and Agile TSA, layoffs are coming for SAs and... — read more 

There is a strong rumor of layoffs in June, anybody has any genuine info on this, might be at a smaller scale across the board, please no trolling

Strangest thing happened to me, middle of the night last week I got an automated email that my TC was increased with roughly 20-25% as Cisco leadership wants to continue to invest in their people. First I thought it was a phishing email so i didn't... — read more 

Seattle-based Amazon workers have plans to walk off the job on May 31 in an act of retaliation over layoffs and return-to-office mandates. https://nypost.com/2023/05/23/amazon-workers-to-walk-off-the-job-over-return-to-office-mandate/

It's ridiculous how much management tries to maintain the appearance that this is a great workplace. What about reality and real issues that are swept under the rug? Do they think it's a viable long-term solution?

https://www.vox.com/money/23733244/bullsh!t-jobs-work-employment-lazy-jobless-employed-nothing-to-do I've added an exclamation point in the URL so it doesn't get censored, just reply with an "i" to access the article. This is what I did for nearly... — read more 

Could use some guidance. I've been at Cisco for 25+ yrs and need a break or retire - not sure yet. Ideally I would like to take a year or so LOA and return to get LR'd. I believe this happens to people. Have any of you done it or have advice for... — read more 

Your mental health matters. You deserve to feel supported in being your best self. This U.S. Mental Health Awareness Month and year round, know that you and your family have powerful solutions to help care for your emotional well-being, including:... — read more 

Post from q2 earnings call (1) On November 16, 2022, Cisco announced a restructuring plan in order to rebalance the organization and enable further investment in key priority areas. This rebalancing includes talent movement options and... — read more 

I recently signed an offer for an internal transfer to a new role. However, my new manager has informed me that there are budget constraints, resulting in a lateral move with no salary adjustment. Additionally, HR discourages grade jumps or salary... — read more 

After last week’s earnings announcement and significant decrease in new orders, steps are being taken to move forward with putting a percentage of SAs into C2E. This is across all segments.

In an interview on CNBC's Mad Money, Chuck Robbins acknowledged Cisco as better positioned to tap the AI frenzy and has bagged some design wins for AI. Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/going-cisco-tech-stock-monday-164426606.html What are... — read more 

He is right on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAQ6LC30CBM

We need leaders who respect those employees who have the feudal loyalty with their sacrifice instead of those who work only for money. For example, when the time is good, a front desk young girl can make 800 while old employees can make 1000. Thus... — read more 

Joined a newer team and revenues haven't been great, but it has been silent with layoff rumors... debating whether to start looking.

How does Cisco manage to remain one of the best companies to work for on nearly every list including the major ones, like the one published by Forbes, when working conditions here have been steadily deteriorating for nearly a decade? How is it done?... — read more 

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m3P1VdY With all the Cisco people hired in the last couple of years, we are going thru the same mess they had. We have no leadership here. Our SVP is a Cisco and Z retread. He has no clue about security but talks a... — read more 

Perhaps it's just me or maybe just the ones I'm dealing with. But not one recruiter I've ever dealt with at Cisco nor hiring managers shows any dececency at all during the process. Why ghost when you can spend about 5 seconds sending even a form... — read more 

Well that was a dud. So all they’re doing is making use cases so we can sell “solutions” to them, which are really just our existing products, sold the way they’ve always been sold.

Is it happening this week or next month??

Thoughts on Lisa Pintner's mental health awareness meeting today? She was Ill equipped to run it imo being so close in time to a mental issue herself as shared. The person who leads this needs have gone through all the s,&t we have arrived on the... — read more 

What you guys feel?

I have recently received several complaints from my direct report regarding the current ISE engagement. It seems that the engagement has been quite counterproductive. The product in question has been divided among multiple teams, namely EN and GSSO... — read more 

What I've observed: Cisco tends to lay off the older, highly skilled and motivated support staff, sales, engineers and internal staff. Obviously this eventually affects customers. Many of those laid off land at corps that use Cisco products... — read more 

Analysts are smart and are not buying the FUD that CR is throwing their way

My entire team just got 15 minute Webex invites for tomorrow! Get out while you can before this place stabs you in the back!!!!!

The latest NPS scores have been published for Q3, not really any positive figures apart from one or two regions. Worryingly US Commercial, GES, Americas SP (probably AMER’s strongest areas for historical revenue?), UK&I and Germany(probably EMEA’s... — read more 

Why did they cancel nexus cloud as a product? This was supposed to be our new saas controller for data center networking. Now we have nothing. Everybody was very excited about this now we are all looking at arista.

Orders are down just under 30%.

I'm starting to see more deals lost to competition than ever before - more than I have ever seen. Seems like some kind of negative inflection point for Cisco.

How did CR get the job?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pRlYMp98qhk

If we the LR severance package, when can we get payments from Unemployment in Texas? I've asked, but still waiting on a response. I also keep reading conflicting information.

Which offices are next? did they really close the Edison NJ office?? why even bother anymore