This seems like a holdover from the old days of just selling routers and switches. Specialist engineers got added for each AT, eventually even EN itself. So what is the purpose of portfolio engineers?

Cisco isn't going to follow M$'s lead, because Cisco is the greatest company to work for!... — read more 

On May 17th, when earnings are announced, there will be another significant round of layoffs. More info to follow.

How will Cisco top that under the current “macroeconomic conditions?”

Massive outages caused by id--ts not paying attention in Víptela BU and the certificates expired on all Vedge devices. How do you not see something like this coming that’s completely avoidable? Current work around is “don’t reboot your devices” haha... — read more 

Aren't we late into the XDR market which is already dominated by Microsoft and Google ? along with others like Exbeam, Artic Wolf, Crowd Stike, Palo Alto etc. How are goiing to sell this to replace a free SecureX with paid XDR ? in my team everyone... — read more 

Mainly consolidation from multiple groups. I know market is tough now

whoever said fake news should come back here after 5-17!

I heard that meraki account teams are getting pooled.

I didn't like Cisco. My manager (1st time being a manager), was always late to our 1:1's. So I started to track it. On average, he was 7 minutes late over the year. He was also very good at screaming on the phone.

There’s been a real urgency to get the Transformation org up and running. Cisco don’t normally make such big changes until the start of the financial year - it’s as if the ELT have seen some information that has made them take quick emergency action... — read more 

AppD's performance across geo's is not looking good at the moment. Do you think Cisco will sell AppD after the FY end?

Remember when you didn’t get real salary raises that bear inflation for 5 years? Well a few employees did! Compensation by year: Chuck Robbins: 2020: 23.1M 2021: 25.4M (+9.9%) 2022: 29.3M (+15.4%) V2Momma aka Maria Martinez 2020: 8.2M ... — read more 

How much did this bring your own pronoun to work cost? Does this make our packets move faster?

Is there any group in LinkedIn for cisco haters?

What is great here? Did he conceive any new product ideas that has market cap of atleast $1B. Just for transitioning, he also endorsed another stupid for making upper management happy, that a$$hole bitched a lot about co workers and others while... — read more 

Anyone knows why there is an announce to have a "Partner VP" in GSSO? Partner related activities are handled under OT so far. Seems like MM change the TAC model, are they changing the Partner model ? any idea ?

Apparently the last one wasn't enough.

Why are they closing this?? crazy

Planning has begun to allow to live day 1 of FY24. SEs are being assigned specialties based on SEER. So if you want to influence which part of the call center you are in, update SEER and speak to your manager about your interests.

All I know is that under no circumstances would I want to be one of those long-term employees who are stuck here. Why are there so many of them? I guess the reason is that they believed in improvements here.

any comment on the future of the campus?

I just heard. We are all being pooled into a glorified GVE. WTF!!!! This will be the end of Cisco! I am leaving for a competitor immediately!!!!!

Cisco is still living off of the innovation created in the 90s. Since 2001, it's just been a bank - collecting checks from their installed base and distributing the profits to shareholders and senior executives. Cisco hasn't delivered any... — read more 

Our manager is trying to squeeze us in every way. If I'm going to be so overwhelmed and exhausted, then I'd rather do it in another company for higher pay. They can't understand that people need to be paid more if they want them to meet higher... — read more 

Old friends and colleagues going back years act like I never existed. When they face their own layoff (and they will if they stay at Cisco), I won't be there for them. What a lousy corporate culture.

Heard of a potential opening on the BD/Sales side for this team, but feeling cautious after LRs in my org. Anyone know anything about this offering and how the product stacks against competitors? Not looking to join another org that will be on the... — read more 

Brace brace !! May 16th - more reorg

I’ve heard from a trustworthy source that we finally found a buyer for Webex. My source wouldn’t divulge who - guessing private equity.

Was he just blowing smoke?

I left company 5 years back due to bad term with managers and former colleagues. Now, the former colleague applied to the company I work for and I absolute hate to see him again. While I will tell this yo the team get and can stop him coming here... — read more 

Did anyone ever get a benefit from the career guidance resources?

The truth is that most of you , working hard for mediocre Managers are innocent flowers. Those who are succeeding well without technical competence or Verri flowers.

I wish I would have lucky enough to have gotten the package. Cisco tries to position ourselves as above the rest of corporate America, but Executive actions show we are not, and in many cases, worse. Over COVID the Execs laughed and played on the... — read more 

Russian hackers exploit six-year-old Cisco flaw to target US government agencies https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/19/russian-hackers-exploit-six-year-old-cisco-flaw-to-target-us-government-agencies/

We were a great company once that respected its employees and did everything it could to keep the best talent instead of looking to get rid of them in any way possible because they "earn too much." I can't pinpoint when the shift happened, but I can... — read more 

Can anyone confirm the rumors???

With all the high inflation, how are the other tech companies doing with raises? Telling workers to just deal with it and no raise, and face some attrition? Or giving some retention raises? In the past Cisco's pay was competitive, but I think... — read more