Could you please provide your update on accommodation request? How you found the process? Any helpful feedback for others going through this process. Thank you.

I see a number of positions open. Paying up to $200K sometimes. What grade is this? Grade 12? What is the difference between Solutions architect and business architect?

With the SAs going to a pool model, the SA as a competitive differentiation will start to fade away. The competitors know this and more importantly customers know this. The Cisco SE used to mean something to customers. EK has destroyed the Cisco... — read more 

RTP is doubling head count and adding six buildings. Exec office confirmed.

Return to work being postponed again!

The sad fact for customers is that Cisco has been degrading the value they deliver to customers for 20 years. In the early days, SEs worked closely with the Development Engineers to ensure technology was being deployed appropriately. Cisco knew it... — read more 

If you feel safe anywhere at Cisco you're setting yourself for a very unpleasant surprise. They are working really hard on replacing everybody who's been here for a while with a younger and cheaper model. They might not bring the same knowledge or... — read more 

Heard Cisco is going to buy forcepoint. Any news on this?

Gone are the days of SEs and SAs. They will be LR-ed and pushed out of the company while the BAs and fake CTOs will run the business. Hooray for Cisco ELT! Hooray for DM in U.K. may his beard get a thousand lice.

When the office closure initiative started in April/May 2020 sales teams were promised Regus memberships to work & have a place to facilitate client meetings. As the country comes closer to a post-pandemic society, will the Regus thing ever become an... — read more 

Take that Chuckie boy!! 🙂 https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/cisco-vet-ruba-borno-is-aws-new-global-channel-chief

https://japan-forward.com/bookmark-beware-the-foreign-firms-paving-chinas-path-towards-global-domination/

New protections for California employees: After this law takes effect (January 1, 2022) if a worker chooses to speak about an experience, companies will be prevented from enforcing nondisclosure agreements and non disparagement clauses. Any reports... — read more 

Why is there such a downsizing and mass exodus of AMs and SAs in US Commercial. AMs and SAs going to Enterprise or competition. What is going on in US Commercial.

I have said this here many times before : why dies Cisco need so many Business Architects? In U.K. they are, without exception, a bunch of completely worthless fat sitting at a high grade , drawing in MIRO board and talking collective rubbish with a... — read more 

https://www.businessinsider.com/cisco-layoffs-earnings-shutdown-mandatory-pto-2021-11 Chuck and Fran gonna be so mad lol

Mandatory pto aka forced vacation aka total compensation cut. It’s not a vacation if you can’t choose when to take it. If the PTO balance is such a liability - eliminate it (buy it out) and go to unlimited non accruable PTO and let direct management... — read more 

I know Cisco does not report customer adoption percentages or software renewal rates to the street, but if they did.....our stock would plummet. Vast majority of sellers lead with the motion of "throw in the software for free, we'll work on adoption... — read more 

I'm calling it. IMO, Cisco is being bought. So many odd things going on.

How a successful software company like Cisco have supply chain issue? Sarcastic. Irony off.

Shutdown Extended, was there an announcement?

No political or snark needed. We've done that already. If (big if) 10%+ of the staff aren't granted accommodations and refuse to get the shot, can the company survive? If so, what will be the work load for those remaining? Don't post "we can lose... — read more 

This has not been a place where it is desirable to express your opinion or where employees are required to bring their own ideas for a long time. Anyone who can't fit into that 'yes man' mentality will soon no longer be part of Cisco. Why saying... — read more 

Numbers way down again. Will it ever come back?

oh boy. Here come the real deal layoffs.

she let go the best management and used some IYIs from Salesforce, I mean if she could move things to the better direction then fine but not. Cisco should hire some good ones from Microsoft like former LinkedIn ceo to replace those incompetent ones... — read more 

I have not been here for as long as some others. Only about 3+ years now. I was hired at Grade 11, presales tech. Since I got hired I proactively worked an average of 12+ hrs a day with BUs, CTO office, customers, partners helping sell solutions, ... — read more 

Has any had their request or heard of any that have been decided on yet?

One of the new hires that just joined my team said that Cisco on-boards 1900 new-hires a quarter! That was the statistic mentioned in their new-hire orientation session. 1,900! That's 7,600 people a year! No wonder we have annual LR's to get rid... — read more 

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2021/11/03/cisco_updates_covid_19_vaccination_policy/

Can't ship products for 6 months with customers starting to cancel orders. TAC support is worse than ever, blowing off angry customers for 3+ days on cases. Product complexity is high and software quality low. Strong competition in every product... — read more 

Hearing the US Commercial segment is consolidating more in FY23. Looks like US Commercial will become all virtual when all said and done. The remaining high end commercial accounts will goto Enterprise just like last year when many high end... — read more 

Are more cuts coming to SAs even though we are going Agile (virtual) in FY23. They are already not backfilling most SAs that have left to the competition. Why are there more cuts coming.

Confirmed

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to "take no steps to implement or enforce the Mandate until further court order."

U.S. federal appeals court affirms hold on Biden's vaccine mandate, calls it "staggeringly overbroad". Biden's vaccine mandate "raises serious constitutional concerns" and "likely exceeds the federal government’s authority."

There is no specific amount of time that employers have to respond to a reasonable accommodation request, but they should respond as quickly as possible. Unnecessary delays to respond to or carry out an accommodation request can result in a violation... — read more 

https://www.newsweek.com/crippling-inflation-ki-l-joe-biden-build-back-better-joe-manchin-1648356 Inflation is a real thing now.. Given that Cisco's salary bands were meaningful in the early 2000's , is there any inflation related adjustment round... — read more 

Do you think there may be small/medium/large Cisco layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?