Anyone know the numbers for UK yet?

While the employees are sh-- scared about their existence and eagerly awaiting updates, some of the execs are shamelessly posting their golfing and exotic vacations photos along with a champagne bottle on social networking sites. Am I blessed to be... — read more 

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO TROLL POSTS. You’ve noticed that we have a troll who is trying to pepper this board with racially and politically charged posts. The language of hate is unacceptable and against the rules of this site. I will personally commit... — read more 

IBM Just Committed Cultural and Creative Suicide https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/ibm-just-committed-cultural-and-creative-suicide.html

When are we going to cut back on the executive cafeteria? I'm not talking about the one next to the EBC which is for visiting customers, but for the custom catered meals that the xVPs get in building 10. They get catered food which is hand picked... — read more 

Everyone are worried. No one dares to speak about this in public though.

I'm in my mid 50s, so I expect to become extinct this year. Anyone here in their 60s?

Many of the teams in UCS/data center had All hands meetings with their Second line managers or directors saying they will announce impacted employee's list in 2 weeks time frame.. not sure whts going on in their mind. The logic was given as if they... — read more 

What peeved me was as they were firing me and a lot of other 50+ people, Chambers was throwing a huge party for himself. Thanks John, Rock on Chuck T shirts - who would do something like this other than someone with a personality like Trump. Living... — read more 

The whole "Service Delivery Executive" thing is a joke. These guys then think they are sales, and marginalize those in the sales teams who are actually out trying to meet the customer's needs. They have no skin in the game (no quota), so they make... — read more 

I got LR'd and I have a question about In Lieu pay. After the one month notice period, I get In Lieu pay in a lump sum. Am I still eligible for this lump sum payment if I have already started work at another company?

If I was Chuckles......I would split the company into two entities. Hardware / Software.

Sadly I believe the 1100 layoffs this month is just the appetizer and the main course will be in August, as usual. There have been comments that Cisco was appending these 1100 to last August's 5500 in order to keep it within the fiscal year (and... — read more 

CSCO is working on a major overhaul whereby all those who WFH/remote will have to come to the office 5 days a week (M-F). This will be implemented just before Q4 ends. Employees will be given 2 weeks to adjust to the new norm. Those who wont comply... — read more 

Cisco LR...a disaster of biblical proportions, Old Testament, real wrath-of-God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes… The dead rising from the grave. Human... — read more 

According to threads BUs seems to be more impacted, mostly on DTG, UCS and possibly wireless. All talk about hundreds and we still miss Sales and AS and rest of the world....are we possible going for more than 1100 and that between layoffs... — read more 

I heard that the road maps have been cut down and sales were told to wind things down. Anyone heard something similar?

So the share price failed to make any recovery yesterday after an 8% crash following earnings and a further 0.5% drop the next day. My concern is where the share price will be in 2 or 3qtr time when consecutive declines in revenue become the norm... — read more 

Has anyone heard of layoffs in Advance Services? Rumor is, AS is not profitable

Partner with Pure Storage and your revenue and stock will plummet like theirs. For all those laid off, you should realize that sh-- show is to blame

I don't know if this month's LR will take some pressure off the presumed LR coming in august. The most we can do is to be prepared and have your go-bag ready and your Plan-B in place.

Here is about a dozen trending article's on Cisco right now... Have fun.... Forbes Cisco's Network Security, Wireless Products Drive Results by Trefis Team... — read more 

Yep. Let's dispense with the "restructuring", LR, Layoff, whatever the PC phrase of the day is --- and call it what it is. People have been FIRED. It is amazing that people think up these stupid terms thinking that somehow it changes what actually... — read more 

I am sure these people are celebrating this week on another "successful" culling. What must it be like to be in this group? What kind of mindset must they have? What is their basis of job-satisfaction? I suspect it is how much pain they can inflict... — read more 

A peer of mine, director level, made it to 68 years old at Cisco having worked there the final 10 years of his career. His boss, a newly hired dip$hit, eliminated his job. Obvious move seeing that my peer was an "old white guy." Anyway, I asked at... — read more 

In my 10yrs at Cisco, I've never even heard of a retirement party. I think the chance for being LR'd or quitting (read: fed up) is too great. Actually, I have heard of one, when MPLS "retired" from their spin-ins. But outside of those four, nobody... — read more 

Keeping all the rhetoric on the age bias, nepotism/ nationality and h1b aside, does anybody know which groups / teams are affected most? 1100 is not a small number. Some groups must have lost 100s.

while looking at the forum and last 2 years of purchase of all these small companies - patents (xxx million into this and xxx million into that company), 90% purchase down to drain and money wasted, eg: I look at webex and then I was looking at zoom... — read more 

I found out that just about everyone I knew older than 43 received less than the target, and the younger people received target or above. They have been laying off Baby Boomers and Gen Xers for years, but kicked that into overdrive after I left. The... — read more 

Stop drinking the cool-aid. There IS a company-level conspiracy. Cisco USED to let go of the bottom 5%. Normally, that's a good thing. Get rid of those that don't perform. Stinks when you're on a great team and even above average performance and... — read more 

I understand people are bitter when the LR hits them and they are convinced it should be someone else. So OK I learned I will be impacted. I hold no animosity against Cisco or the executive team. They are trying to do right by employees with decent... — read more 

Best thing that happened to me. True about the management though. In a BU of 55 engineers, 9 got laid off, 8 of them Americans, and the other Americans in the team got relocated, leaving just 1 token American in the BU left out of about 44. HR... — read more 

L&T are in the frame to take most of Bangalore SPVSS people as red badges. If they do not go to red badge status AND move to Chennai..... they are doomed.

The culture and environment that Chuck & Co have created is so toxic. This once great place to work will never recover. I was LR'd last August after 11 years at Cisco. I wanted out of that awful environment so I began my job search in April of last... — read more 

Lot of people complaining about bias towards 50+, In DCG - 4 university grads (joined this spring) with an heap of student debt were shown the door. Its such a shame for any company to fire new young talent. They had no clue what had hit them. If you... — read more 

45 new topics being discussed on this forum within 24 hours, you all folks should be ashamed that Cisco employees/ex-employees trust this forum more than your in house process, tools , people to share their grievances, thoughts and feedback. Cisco... — read more 

If you were affected in May 2017's LR, please post some info: BU you were in Date you were notified Age, M/F if you don't mind So many other comments and people from previous LR's commenting it is hard to track and understand the current situation... — read more 

If what is being said has some bases in fact about using "layoffs" as a pretense for replacing older workers with younger ones, then this appears to be a strong case for an age discrimination EEOC action. My words may not be more than just "venting"... — read more