It is too much management and customer centric culture, i worked with many other companies including juniper networks. Culture is employee centric, meidum size management centric and performance and ratings are not much involved.

I have colleagues who will always say that Cisco has a strong emphasis on encouraging employees to continuously seek and apply new skills, but I no longer consider this a learning culture. You? Unfortunately, I feel that I'm wasting my time here and... — read more 

Opportunity for Cisco to cut costs. Lots of desperate H1-B visa Sw developers available in market from Google, Amazon, Meta etc. Well trained and very motivated and lot less expensive.

Is it me or do people really like to ignore teammates at this Company? There's people who simply won't acknowledge any calls, emails, or Webex messages. I'll fight for a customer's attention, a parter's to an extent, but I shouldn't have to... — read more 

It is interesting that staying here for many years used to be seen as a reflection of loyalty and something praiseworthy, but nowadays it's become almost something to be ashamed of. How did that happen? Neither the company nor other employees... — read more 

Taking Bonus from 25 to 18% and they saying look at how much you are paid is completely disingenuous. Why were grade 12s penalized more than any other group?

Should fall on the CxO, hordes of Directors, VPs and managers. These guys do not add anything to the revenue generation process. As ex-Googler Praveen writes: "The recent layoffs should perhaps have focused more on managers and directors and VPs,"... — read more 

Been 2 years. It's a big company, but never have I felt this lonely before. Unlike other tech companies I previously worked, employees at Cisco are so cold, evasive, unfriendly. I of course know that a company is not a place to make friends, but I... — read more 

The sooner you realize leadership isn't really looking out for anyone except themselves, the happier you will be. Doesn't matter what company it is. People have had it for companies that don't look out for their workers. No where is safe. The sooner... — read more 

Just for fun I took a look at the Palo Alto Networks layoff page. It looks the same as this page. Not judging just find it interesting.

question : if the numbers and quarter is so great , why did we push out 4 k people for rebalancing ? we keep building a submissive culture where only "Yes" men are rewarded ?

Evening everyone, I am thrilled to let you know that with these results, eligible employees (Director level and below) will receive their payout of their Mid-Year Advance. As a reminder, this is 50 percent of the total target bonus. For more... — read more 

Fantastic https://www.barrons.com/amp/articles/cisco-earnings-stock-price-2123ee4

Did we get our mid year advance? I can’t access CEC for some reason.

It's terrible how much Cisco doesn't value talent. At one time, there were many great people here. But if you ask those who have left, most will tell you that they feel like they just wasted their talent here. Does Cisco really not have a need for... — read more 

There are a slew of older folks I know in the LR. They are usually higher-paid and then legally Cisco doesn't need to pay out on the RSUs. It's a huge legal loophole that Cisco uses that saves hundreds of millions. If Cisco had to pay all the... — read more 

If this is an accurate rumor, any ideas if they will still allow LR impacted people to apply to positions?

I totally agree that Cisco is somewhat behind the times, which of course has negative business impacts. I heard from many people that they only became aware of this issue here when they went to other tech companies.

Story will be in tomorrow's Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Cisco HQ will be in Midtown. SJC to be downsized / leased.

they'll hire bruce buffer to do it

RB and several sales leaders are at the Super Bowl this weekend all at the expense of those that were laid off. Another example of out touch leadership who continues to take care of themselves while doing nothing for the field.

Let's all have a little fun. How many of you think we will get a mid-year advance? After having one of the most successful Q1s ever and Q2 looking promising, the way Cisco has been going, i'd say no LOL

Team is being gutted, and I want to be prepared. What has the severance been like for those impacted in Sales?

Cisco Number of employees laid off: 4,100 Total cost: Cisco projects $600 million in severance costs through October 2022. Average cost per employee:... — read more 

How was DG viewed when at Cisco? Was he a great leader?

Fire the CXOs, the VPs, the directors and management. They have the responsibility of making business decisions and they are the ones that should face the consequences, not the workers. I have wondered why executives making bad decisions or not being... — read more 

I joined Cisco in September and it took me about a month to realize I made a mistake. Since then, that realization has been confirmed multiple times. I have never stressed about work more than I have in the last five months. Some of the expectations... — read more 

The layoffs across GSSO last week is being spun as investment. More GSSO layoffs are coming at end of this FY as the additional headcount that is being added will not provide the revenue needed to justify those additional sellers. This is by design... — read more 

The separation agreement is delivered using DocuSign. The email, containing the link to the separation agreement, is sent to the employee's cisco email address - like JohnDoe@cisco.com. The docuSign email link automatically expires in 48 hour... — read more 

More Layoffs coming at end of FY. GES and Public Sector consolidation continues, while US Commercial is overhauled. There will be an impact to ODs, RMs, SEDs, and SEMs. There will not be as many Operations and Regions. For AMs, iACV makes a... — read more 

Who ever joins cisco in future, can they put a condition like this. He works for cisco for atleast 5 years. Performance doesn't matter. If he gets laid off, Cisco has to pay a tleast $1M

I have been in CS and seen it from behind the curtains. It's run by jokers and Yes-man types who "manufacture" work and projects coz there is no real work. The whole thing doesn't create any value or impact. They failed the CX Cloud launch, many use... — read more 

Found out that many almost 40s were hit in the "restructuring" (aka get rid of older workers effort). Sorry, that isn't going to work. Regulators aren't stupid. It's just too obvious to ignore. They messed up. Went over the line into the danger... — read more 

Yet to see a condolence email from ELT about 3k+ souls that perished in Turkey and Syria due to earthquake 😢

RB said she and EK will never allow Account SAs to be put behind C2E. That’s how you know it definitely will happen.

who is ready to hear all the hip hip hooray of how great the company is doing and our ELT praising one another for how great life is?!?

This is Good News for USPS / CX / OneX Business no matter how you slice it! This is the real reason why Top Execs & Billionaires Go To Davos in the First place!

50? 100? More? What a disgrace.

https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/CISCO-SYSTEMS-INC-4862/news/Cisco-COO-Maria-Martinez-Reacts-to-President-Biden-s-Intent-to-Nominate-Her-to-National-Security-T-42893907/

They may still be able to get back in the saddle but that depends on the ELT. They have these useless layers of directors, managers, etc. especially in sales and CX, who do absolutely nothing. They do not add value, do not build business and... — read more