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

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.