Great optics. Lay folks off and then pay her to come talk about careers...

I'm interested in knowing if you have any second thoughts or regrets about that choice now that some time has passed? Maybe you realized that you miss your coworkers, or perhaps you've discovered that your new job isn't what you thought it would be... — read more 

So many companies that already laid off a whole bunch of people are having their second or even third wave of layoffs. Is that going to be us as well?

Like Cisco managers give performance rating, I do rate companies I work. Cisco got N, or needs improvement rating. Reason, Cisco is the company where I received the lowest compensation among 7 other companies I work for. Also, cisco is the only... — read more 

Change in plans, it's not closing. hooray!

Looks like Cisco was one of the orgs that trusted Silicon Valley bank with its money. https://original.newsbreak.com/@spark-news-1614266/2954049947836-silicon-valley-bank-s-collapse-what-happened-and-what-you-need-to-know It will be interesting to... — read more 

Due to the downturn in the economy, there is a change to put everyone including SAs in C2E to include SAs and TSAs of every architecture. The cost of pre-sales engineering is still too high after cost study was recently completed.

Can someone share the number including full time as well as contract employees. Need this for some analysis.

Anyone see the roadmap for Meraki with Catalyst? Pretty soon we will have full visibility of most wireless & switching SKUs, firmware management, CLI terminal, assurance capabilities and more. This is basically the only reason why my customers buy... — read more 

Cisco really should abolish stupid "Connected Recognition" system immediately. I'm so sick of getting this stupid "Connected Recognition" emails day after day, even on weekends. I don't care who received this or that recognition. I know there are... — read more 

I worked hard and it didn't get recognized, almost LR'ed, so I left. Recruiter contacted me a while back, they will do interview and decide even though I am an ex employee. If I Join cisco and get LR'ed again, why should I join. How to handle this... — read more 

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/new-nlrb-decision-renders-previously-legal-severance-agreements-illegal#:~:text=The%20National%20Labor%20Relations%20Board,even%20those%20without%20union%20representation.

The outside job market is very competitive right now and full of laid off tech workers but if you stay focus and prepare yourself, you will come out ahead. Here are some tips: Use the Randstad resume service to update your resume. Put your... — read more 

Something feels wrong here when we all get mid-year bonuses while more than 4000 of our work colleagues are walked. We all should give up our bonus and keep these folks. Or, let attrition do the job and let the VPs and above that contributed to the... — read more 

How can so called Americas Sales Executives call the worst play ever in the history of Sales by mandating an internal enablement on the start of March Madness. It does not matter the industry or what you are selling, this is embarrassing. This is a... — read more 

This occurred: Impacted individual was told by the hiring manager that he was ready to give him an offer. They discussed and the hiring manager then told him that he could not make an offer after all because he was being pressured to bring in... — read more 

Sorry for the WTO folks. It's over. I heard that most open positions are on hold long enough for y'all to be gone. What a horrible thing for leadership to do. They kept out that bait so that you would train your replacement. Shameful. These... — read more 

IS it true?

AppD not performing revenue wise AppD Cloud is behind competitions

For the last few months, every time I open up my linkedin page there is always a sad story of some H1B worker who got laid off with a nice family picture begging people to find them a job so that they can stay in the U.S. First of all, I do... — read more 

We need a real Sales VP and Engineering VP. They have shown their complete incompetence again. Everyone knows that the NCAA tournament begins on March 16th. Leave it to these two to plan a “Game Day” Training Series with a football field as the... — read more 

Anyone here got the shaft last week? Or are you still waiting for the VP to get his act together? This stress from the fear of the unknown for the last 5 months is beginning to get to my system. Why does it so long for the UK management to figure get... — read more 

I see a lot of complaining about management and I'm curious what percentage of the people here have ever had to do it themselves. Since counting the few who say they do without an accurate count of those who don't is useless I'm curious if there is... — read more 

Esther Crawford. Muskaholic, fangirl, dedicating her life to any folly her supreme leader would scheme. Well, she got laid off. Let this be a lesson in cynicism. The corporate world doesn't care about individuals, it's here to generate more wealth... — read more 

I have seen "Yes" Men rise up the ranks faster than people who question Management . do employees question Management ? do Managers like obedient employees who just follow orders ? do you foster Growth and innovation by just following orders ?... — read more 

While Cisco is hopeful, even enthusiastic, about nosism becoming commonplace, I find myself experiencing profound doubts about its benefits. More precisely, the devastating ramifications of widespread nosism make me wonder if it isn’t simply the case... — read more 

Got a notification on this and saw increment in work profile. Is this for people getting really low pay? Can I sue Cisco?

Only issue is that Cisco 's management (starting from first line managers to all the way vps), don't agree with it. This is unlike Juniper, where the management agrees that it is not a great place (in otherwords, stupid place). This makes employees... — read more 

Can anyone explain to me why sales managers, senior managers, directors and VPs all have so few reports? Seems like the company could save a lot of money by consolidating these highly paid but no value bringing people.

Hello! Can I expect stock refreshers for g8 ? If yes, how to and when ?

Have the proof for Age Discrimination now. Concrete.

Someone shared with me their layoff package and it isn't too bad. What sucks is they are basically saying we'll pay you a few months of pay to keep your mouth shut (especially those over 40). Cisco layers are among the best in the industry at... — read more 

Cisco is raking in huge profits, but at what cost? The company is handing out pink slips to the very employees who helped build this success story. They've even dubbed this ruthless practice as "workforce transition options" to make it sound less... — read more 

Are we a networking company , collab , security etc or all in one combo ? Every year I keep hearing different theme words . This year it’s agile . What does agile networks mean ? Same for internet of future ? Seem to be more of buzz words . Can... — read more 

Surprisingly, Cisco claims to favor the teaching of critical thinking in schools. You should beware of such claims from it, though. To Cisco, critical thinking is a code word for correct thinking where correct means pro-Satanism. In my opinion, it... — read more 

July 1 the lights go out

just came back from a vacation two weeks ago after getting notified in December. As I start looking for jobs on the internal job board, there isn't that many positions as I thought it would be. But so far every job I applied ended with a... — read more 

Can anyone suggest what are all the startups that are hiring or atleast will hire in future, that can disrupt cisco in any of cisco's domain. I want to jojn the forces and democratize cisco's dominance.

Is it just me or people at the top hire only their buddies / connections ? CIO gets hired from IBM and he brings his/her buddies from there while the rest of the Individual contributors keep struggling for a job via traditional job portals while... — read more