Welcome (soon) to the new company....

Years back Cisco acquired 2 service provider video companies - Scientific-Atlanta and later NDS. Both were industry leaders in their own right, billions in combined revenue, though some products had their issues. That was years ago. Fast forward to... — read more 

The Ericsson + Cisco partnership that was supposed to generate $1b in incremental revenue is dead. Only thing left is some trite resale/IP agreement that will yield a 100m euros at best. The partnership leaders are fired. Left behind is a small... — read more 

I've heard that people usually get a third less than expected when they finally receive their severance payment. Is this true? I can just imagine the shock of first being laid off, then coming to terms with it because you are counting on certain... — read more 

This year I'm going to enter the dreaded rule 70 age/years-with-the-company bracket (50/20). How worried should I be?

All gone silent. What is latest news on things going on?

When should we expect to hear the results of the raise/promo cycle?

One part going to Comcast One part to PE

How many small layoffs did we have in the past twelve months? The ones that don't have to be reported for WARN nor attract media attention? Has there been a week without hearing about at least one or two people being shown the door by Cisco? So tired... — read more 

Worked with this guy in my group, Massachusetts, totally incompetent. He was swept up into Cisco through some acquisition of a start up (he was always joking how he was hired to write how-to-use manuals) and somehow Cisco eventually slid him into a... — read more 

can someone chime in , I know it's a layoff site but I am not sure where else i'd be able to ask

Been here for 17 years and wish I could be LR'ed. Need the package. I can find another gig very easily. I started dragging my for the past 2 years but it seems my name and the LR list are like oil and water. If I ask my manager, is that a good idea... — read more 

Up to 27% of FTE and contractors will be cut over a 3 month period.. CSCO wants to slim down. All L2 mgrs and their directors have been instructed to provide an excel spreadsheet of individuals to be cut. Some teams will be completely obliterated. If... — read more 

I know that often times older employees translates to higher pay scales and bonus levels, but when it's a glaring pattern is it still that hard to prove it's discrimination? I'm curious if anyone has reached out for legal advice on the topic and can... — read more 

When are they going to do something about the poor leadership that is in place and get back to producing double digit growth? Attrition is at an all time high in GESW and there is more coming! GES used to be a powerhouse - now it resembles nothing of... — read more 

Is "diversity" actually measured or just done to get pats on the back?

MWC was great show to demonstrate good partnership values. Cisco to announce we buy router 6k from E///. It's not s good product but we can fix and have profitable sales in 5G. Gluck man agrees as he is sponsoring strategy.

If you work hard, dedicate yourself, and solve great challenges (you know, what you're SUPPOSED to do in a career) your only real reward at that place is the moment when they sneak up behind you with a bolt gun and put an end to the fear their... — read more 

Enjoy your day, grunts.

Been with Cisco for over 8 years now, survived many LRs. Wife works for Barracuda, b--ches about Cisco and constant LRs... At Barracuda, no layoffs... Then a hit comes out of nowhere and she gets the axe yesterday. F---! See their board @RZACyHy

Did I miss something or was there no real hint or indication of the latest layoffs round?

I tried to find some info on yesterday's layoffs in the media, but there is absolutely nothing. Literally, not one news link pops up when you type in Cisco and layoffs and limit it to the past 24 hours. There are discussions from this site and some... — read more 

Service provider routing & switching is in cross-hairs for sure after years of slow decline and tepid demand . Budgets are being cut , headcount challenges, strategic missteps on not developing own asics in timely manner ... i am not sure what future... — read more 

Please chime in with any detail you have.

Lots of hallway talk at the executive offices of shutting down the entire lawrenceville site. Looks like Cisco is seriously thinking of diversifying the video business .

Being laid off at Cisco after 20+ years in September 2016, they would not give details about the profiles of people being laid off, including ages of the layoffees until we signed the severance agreement in which we agreed that Cisco was being fair... — read more 

Hearing there's going to be a layoff tomorrow in RTP. Anyone else hearing this?

I work at Broadsoft and we just recently got acquired by Cisco. I was told I am marked as a transitional employee and will not have a job past July. Any idea how Cisco's severance package will look like for me?

Easier solution….layoff all those sycophants who “reply all” to Emails. And if the original Email requested recipients to not “reply all” to an Email, as it was sent to a large distribution list, then they should be sacked for being incredibly stupid... — read more 

Is Lawrenceville going to be affected?

Regarding the mentioned "expected trim of the bottom 5 percent," that is not how layoffs at Cisco work nor have they ever. Every single round of layoffs has cut some of the best people who have been with the company long enough to earn a decent pay... — read more 

Cisco is the number one in volume of buybacks. It's all going to the shareholders not the workers. Tax cut scoreboard: Workers $6 billion; Shareholders $171 billion http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/16/investing/stock-buybacks-tax-law-bonuses/index.html

Been hearing some chatter at the office about possible March layoffs, but I can't figure out what started the rumor. Do we know if there really is another round coming next month or is this just the usual office crap that bored people come up with... — read more 

Cisco are pretty good at buying and acquiring tech and talent - I was wondering if anyone has any stats about the successes? It would be really helpful to have some proper ammunition to use on these idiots that use the tiny number of failures (SA... — read more 

Reading the website makes me believe Cisco employees lack humor.

Happened upon this site for moaners. You DO realize Cisco is doing great without you. Suggests some smart management. As a channel partner working with several manufacturers I can say, Cisco has the best channels program in the industry. Cisco is now... — read more 

Did it end up like our fabled cloud portfolio