I hope you enjoyed the holiday shutdown because it’s the last one. The company is switching salaried employees from PTO to DTO. Rather than pay out now, you will retain your accrued balance and be paid out when you eventually leave.

It’s exhausting listening to these dolts all day. Even the execs. Get them a damn headset.

Judging by what people write here, it seems that there are many who have a side gig? I am so overworked, there is no way I could have a side job.

Anyone know any details on this? Leadership has been noticeably quiet about anything. No plan, no date, no expectations.

What’s the status of the pilot?

It will be extreme thing to do no?

Leave Cisco and your team behind

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/cisco-hires-ex-vmware-exec-as-security-chief/2023/01/ Why we keep adding executives, last year we hired SS to lead SBG. Now we have created a “new role” for SS. Would we do this to our best engineers? We have... — read more 

The layoffs at Cisco came without warning, Leaving many employees feeling dejected and mourning. The company that they loved and gave their all to, Suddenly felt like a house built on sand, crumbling and askew. Gone are the days of job security and... — read more 

Rebalancing the business for the future. Good news: all VPs can be laid off and replaced by ChatGPT. The content of the messages from the "leaders" will be greatly improved. You may argue that groundbreaking ideas might not be a guarantee; however... — read more 

There are many risks and uncertainties. Perhaps it's still early to talk about it, but do you have any prediction of what the Q2 results will be like?

…and the tech industry in particular, should be prepared for two more years of adversity before it can see growth once more, according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Nadella asserts that the COVID-19 pandemic-induced surge in demand has started to... — read more 

https://www.marketbeat.com/instant-alerts/nasdaq-csco-options-data-report-2023-01/ wow... :-(

The disastrous C2E and Agile TSA programs are finally a winner. These 2 failed initiatives that had the goal of lower pay, limited career path opportunities, and devaluing SAs and TSAs have officially been declared as the worse Pre-Sales Engineering... — read more 

It happens often that those who were laid off from Cisco blame themselves for it and constantly reexamine where they went wrong and what they could have done better. Why are you doing this to yourself?? It is quite clear that there is no logic... — read more 

No update on the layoffs.

This is a good thing, but holy cow it will take forever and have major quality issues. Meanwhile new features will be on hold for years. Why not just make a single controller/portal that doesn’t suck?

The first week of 2023 is already eventful: Salesforce is laying off more than 7k people and Amazon just announced planned cuts of 18k employees. If anybody was hoping that tech layoffs would slow down this year, they got an early reminder of how... — read more 

https://mondo.com/insights/mass-layoffs-in-2022-whats-next-for-employees/

That’s right. This is not the bloody Christmas announce in November. The pipeline for this quarter/half is awful. To appease the stock market, a new, bigger layoff will be announced on the next earnings call. Much of this will hit sales, and is being... — read more 

For those who want to insult those laid off from Cisco or Salesforce, you are only showing your lack of character. Anyone is susceptible to being laid off, and for those who are still employed yet clearly lack maturity and empathy, you only prove it... — read more 

Salesforce is chopping 10% of its workforce. Cisco will gladly sn---h those 10% dumped by Salesforce. As they say, one man's trash is another man's treasure.

It's amazing how many great employees Cisco has decided it doesn't need anymore. Some of the biggest slackers I know are still here. A good worker is easy to lose, but hard to replace. I wouldn't be surprised if they realize what a mistake they... — read more 

The trauma and emotions around being laid off are difficult to navigate, yet perfectly natural as they are the stages of grief. Don’t beat yourself up for how you feel, or let others make you feel wrong. It’s a normal reaction. Just try to remember a... — read more 

JC and MPLS, with their spin-in strategy, brought decades of revenue and generations of products into Cisco. Is there a modern Cisco equivalent? Where is the innovation coming from?

Managers here actually only manage the decline. Does this place have any chance for business growth anymore?

I simply cannot believe the extent to which the leadership is ignoring the competition and allowing direct competitors to overtake Cisco in many things. I wonder if they pay any attention at all to what the competition is doing? The mismanagement... — read more 

I hope that this year all of you who are hoping to leave Cisco behind will find a way to do it that meets all of your needs, and all of us who are hoping to stay will get a chance to relax and not worry about layoffs at least for a bit. Call me a... — read more 

As we heard on RB’s disastrous All Hands call a few weeks ago, she stated that notifications were not done and would go on for some time. US Commercial Sales will be impacted and notifications are going out last week of January.

Until recently, FAANG companies were the holy grail for any software engineer. Is that still true, even with all the changes and layoffs that happened in the past year? I'm considering where to apply and I was looking at some FAANG openings but I'm... — read more 

I saw this nojitter article on Enterprise Calling and it sort of makes Cisco look good. But I think Cisco will drop the ball and continue to cut and move jobs to India and in the end let other companies take over the... — read more 

I have spent the last couple of weeks racking my brain over what goes into who gets LR'd and who doesn't. I know numerous high performers that were let go and low performers that were kept. Some that were kept had similar salaries as those let go. I... — read more 

Who intends to quit just after the holidays? From what I hear, there will be a lot of quitting.

Can we stop number crunchers from being the ones who decide who gets laid off? I know it's not personal and it's all about numbers, but we're already feeling the loss of some essential folks from our team who should have never been let go in the... — read more 

I was LR’ed in 2016. Is Cisco still not giving Annual reviews and not telling employees where they are ranked in their organization?

Cisco has an appeal process for layoff if you think you're wrongly terminated. Is there any chance to get the laid off reverted going through this process? Has anyone done it? I know someone who got laid off and he was the only one in the group... — read more 

You know that old saying: work to live, don't live to work? Well, I'm sadly on the second end of it right now. I had to work the whole weekend, Christmas included, to stay on top of things. We lost half of our team, but expectations are still the... — read more 

A colleague who recently left admitted to me at the end that having Cisco on resume did not help him much to get a better job. Moreover, he says that the fact that he stayed here longer than he had initially planned made everything much more... — read more 

Do our customers really need another buying program? The EA already allows cross-portfolio software and services -- is Omega expanding that to also include hardware? I can kinda see how this would work for compute and storage -- this is what Dell's... — read more