Bad news. Big LR eminent. ER on the table too to get rid of high earners. More coming....

deets to come in future post.

Is there an awards cycle this month? I've heard yes and no. Seems like with all the T&I money saved there'd be enough in the bank to do one. Thoughts?

Just a few weeks after being promoted, a newly minted VP who’s been with Cisco for years is gone. This group has lost SVP, VP, Sr Directors, and Directors in a couple months. Switches and Routers are done. SDWAN is doomed.

CX Red Badges in RTP were terminated back in April, they were told their positions were moving to Colombia, despite good numbers stated the week before. ¡Ay, caramba! Projects are pretty new, with new customers being assigned all the time. Only... — read more 

So we continue to WFH until 2021. How do people feel about that? I believe the policy applies to US, Brazil, Mexico and another pandemic hot spot I cannot remember.

Next week 8000 or more from what i was told will be quietly LRd. NDA will help min the press coverg

Does anyone know when the next layoffs are going to hit? Is there an offer of early retirement? When should I expect a 15 minute call on my calendar? Is Cisco laying off in small? I don't think it's a big revenue generator but not sure.

Anyone else noticed that Cisco has gone off the rails lately with useless reports. I'm in Sales, and its gotten to such an extreme level that is about all we do now is fill out spreadsheets, PPT decks, plans, etc. Only to be stored on a file share... — read more 

Learned my role is going away. I suppose I could complain and say ‘invest in your employees’ instead of outside causes. Wouldn’t change the result anyway.

Anyone know the story behind this? https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2020/07/30/cisco-wrongful-death-lawsuit.amp.html

Just let the comments stay out here and let the audience decide what is good or bad. Why do we need the admins to shield us from bad or offensives posts......? I several posts deleted over last week.

I’m ready for a 25% paycut.. as we know many engineers are paid high. It’s ok to take paycut rather than job cut?

Anyone heard this? It sounds like major layoffs may be avoided, but pay packages impacted.

Third year in a row! Change leadership or LR more journeymen (and women)?

I recently had an HR case opened against me because someone complained about my social media posts. Been with company 10 yr and never had a complaint for ‘wrongthink’ What happened to this place?

A hones question: How happy do you think Cisco's customers are?

https://theprint.in/economy/intel-fires-its-indian-origin-chief-engineer-murthy-renduchintala-for-production-failures/469393/

Any word on early retirement?

Hi folks , I got a verbal confirmation on May 15 2020, as software engineer grade 8, in hyper flex team. Later that week recruiter says the position went on hold as they need ops director approval. He says after a month FY Budget will be out in July... — read more 

https://news-blogs.cisco.com/apjc/2020/07/21/cisco1bestplacetoworkaustralia/ Best place to work As long your not part of the constant annual layoffs.

I cant share the site. It is a significant overture of a divestment strategy that likely indicates a significant people reduction here.

I am over 50 and was LR'd going on three years ago... Biggest mistake I saw while at Cisco for 18 years was people living WAY beyond their means... Do you need a BMW? Even a new car? An upscale home? Spend your energy working, staying... — read more 

Major publications picking up on Cisco firings and positioning it more negatively e.g. https://thepostmillennial.com/cisco-fires-employees-criticizing-black-lives-matter Several other publications like the sentinel have also run the same story — read more 

May if the contract works are letting go.. is it happening across all BU? July end the closing deadline

I'm dreading a possibility of being laid off right now because I keep hearing horror stories about people in my age group not being able to find any kind of a job right now after being given their walking papers, not to mention a job in the same... — read more 

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-07-17/cisco-fires-workers-for-racial-comments-during-diversity-forum

What was the minimum age+years of service number for the last ER package? Manager told me new one is coming but didn’t have number yet.

nuance no layoff news since march Alcatel-Lucent no layoffs news since jan WHT is cisco doing not good as google and that's fine, but worse than Alcatel-Lucent kidding me

You can delete this - however the facts don’t change. The CSCO plan of record is to blame COVID and current policies for the layoffs. Those are insider facts. Deleting this doesn’t change that.

A legitimate apolitical post about layoffs was deleted by the wokeness-police because someone’s feelings were hurt. How sad and pathetic.

People who were affected late February got their employment period extended twice already, till end of July. Are they getting another extension?

The exec count is now at 3. More to come before big August layoffs. Significant in EN, Collab, Sec, App business areas India to be impacted substantially

Wow, first the SVP Product jumps to Google now the Cisco Chief Strategy Officer bails for SAP! Two senior executives jump within weeks! This spells doom for Cisco! Here comes another wave! chop chop

This site keeps deleting posts asking if certain words are taboo You cant even put the words in a post B—-listing for example is now a banded word on this site.

Who here is totally dismayed about the over the top Virtue Signalling that Cisco is doing. I am a red badge that during the interview process asked both the recruiter for the contracting company and the hiring manager (director in this case) about... — read more 

What have people heard?

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/30/business/30reuters-cisco-lawsuit.html California sues Cisco over discrimination claims by an Employee with I-M bosses