Does Cisco have a department dedicated to writing fake reviews? The reviews look rather suspicious

After years of extremely poor HR & BU management destroying xNDS legacy, finally our SPVSS FR office will be closed this year ! Thanks ! Now we want big time money from your pocket Cisco !!! Give to your puppet YL every €€€ we ask for :) => not only... — read more 

What's the max pay for grade 10 software engineers and grade 11 tech leads in SJ? Just the base salary.

Big Day Imminent? From messages circulating it appears so and numbers look significant

Just wondering if anyone has heard anything yet and whether I should bother making backup plans?

Cisco culture has evolved into middle school or high school style popularity contest. The team of mental giants which decided that a company could be ran without formal performance reviews should be awarded a medal for being able to actually enable... — read more 

"But computing could yet become much more centralised, leaving less space for Cisco to knit things together. Big cloud providers will also try to get into the business of managing and automating networks. And Cisco has a mixed record of implementing... — read more 

Seriously asking. Please use this post to answer the question; there are enough existing posts to rant on the negative.

Anyone had a discussion with their manager about the chopping block (sometimes called the 9-block)? Had one here in the UK recently and was given a bit vague along the lines of needing to move to the top left. Does anyone know how these things are... — read more 

Anyone hear what the final casualty count from March was for SPVSS in Lawrenceville ? I'm hearing 150 or more. Is that accurate ?

I read a lot of posts here blaming Flip or NDS or choose your failed acquisition for the woes of Cisco. I also read posts about outsourcing as another root cause. All of these are a sideshow. The real issue that has driven the decline of Cisco in its... — read more 

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracles-stock-surge-sends-analysts-scrambling-to-boost-targets-2017-06-22 Oracle seems to be making money from it's cloud offers. Even if it's just moving people from OracleDB on prem to hosted DB, it's still... — read more 

Someone knows? Waiting to TG...

16 year Cisco vet (left a year ago for greener pastures nothing to do with an LR) but came across this article that reminded me what I love about the company that I just caught the tail end of in 99... — read more 

I've never understood why Cisco has moved so many employees (management & non-management) from India to the US. What is the motivation to do so ? Is it cost savings ? How ? or are these exceptional managers & engineers that had to be retained ? — read more 

That should tell you all you need to know about the clowns running the insane asylum

If an employee is planning to quit cisco now, what are chances that manager will give bonus can he give 0 as employee is leaving Cisco ? or is it dependent upon relationship with manager ? this time we will get 75% of remaining amount right as we... — read more 

Project Andromeda Question - June 2017: Does anybody know about new project called Andromeda, this is Cisco's cloud version of UCSM and they are projecting roadmap till 2020, I am still not convinced they can catch up in cloud market with so late... — read more 

Cisco was booted out of a large MSO lab due to it's disaster of a Video Back Office that was three years late. And what did CC and his entourage do ? They LR'ed the system engineers who dedicated their last three years to the project, and not a... — read more 

New joinee here, I was reading another post here describing about Compensation ratio, how is it calculated? What the metrics used to evaluate employee value? Even experienced guys in my team are not sure how it is done after the removal of bell... — read more 

I am dilemma, whether to stay or leave. Does this BU have roadmap? Cisco is in top of blade market nothing to gain there, Dell is choking everyone in Rack. Does Cisco have a strategy or new plans?

I have seen in these posts that there is some expectation of another round of layoffs in August which may approach 10% of the workforce. My management team has been pretty transparent about upcoming layoffs in the past and they have given no signals... — read more 

Upon last year's mass layoff, most of us got significant pay raises. Not this time. What a pity. I just wonder what Cisco is doing with all the money it saves.

Friends - the Cisco Contagion is spreading around the SPVSS world. The destruction of a thriving 5 billion dollar business is continuing. Whilst the so called ELT has jet-setted and spent lavishly with their massive bonuses, some in excess of 100% of... — read more 

Project Harmony (aka InterCloud Part 3 or is it 4?), pivoting again. Customers don't want it, but the SVPs have convinced ELT that Enterprises do. All the employees that were acquired are "resting and vesting" or have left for greener pastures. It's... — read more 

I heard two things by reliable sources. First, those being outsourced are also getting the full Cisco package. This is possibly a sign that this is a temporary arrangement and the transfer is a short term arrangement. Second, no one being outsourced... — read more 

I remember well the press around John Chambers retirement as CEO. He clearly said he intended to promote "the new CEO" to Chairman of the Board in a 2 year timeline. 2 years from JC stepping down as CEO will be late July, 2017. Does anyone think this... — read more 

https://qz.com/1002252/the-bench-in-indian-it-infosys-wipro-cognizant-look-to-reduce-underutilised-workers-not-on-projects/?utm_source=YPL&yptr=yahoo

Title: Cisco will shed 150 to 200 of its employees in Israel today Source: (see below) Cisco will announce today that 150-200 employees at the company's center in Jerusalem will complete their work subject to a hearing, Calcalist learned. In... — read more 

He's also giving his speech in a shared area of the building, where hundreds of other people walk through, so maybe this explains why security is such a mess...

Tomorrow morning Jerusalem's site is planning an all-hands event with all local employees, Yael and Conrad. Conrad carries 3 messages: We are laser focused​ on our strategy It's the tactics that change git-rebase is strictly forbidden in SPVSS — read more 

from xNDS Jerusalem to xNDS & SPVSS friends in CF / Staines / BLR / SZ / HK / FR / KR / SG / BJ / MH / SJ / CM etc: whatever tomorrow or indeed the future brings , I want to wish you all the very best. Some of us will stay on, some of us will be sold... — read more 

It is the 11th. Nothing happened yet? When is it going to happen? How many?

I don't know why people believe all the rumors on here about SPVSS (aka SPAPPS). Personally I prefer to think that our SVP and senior leadership are decent, competent people that are doing their best to lead us all to a good and successful future... — read more 

Hi Friends, What is Grade 10 Salary range CTC i.e. including Basic + Bonus 15% + CPF ?

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A bit convoluted, so hoping to hear some responses. And if it's ACI, how that fits into SDN.