I am fully expecting to be laid off on the 18th, but I have a job offer already with another company. I know part of the usual package is payment for one month while you are employed but not really employed. Could I tell them I can start first week... — read more 

Pay and bonus range for an Engineer with 10+ years of experience in Cisco India?

We can thank the nepotism world at Cisco for keeping some of those to survive our quarterly LRs. I'm disgusted by those who have ingrained themselves to the detriment of Cisco culture so they can be transitioned to roles where they have no business... — read more 

RowT has put all the Collaboration eggs in the Spark basket. He has gone all in but only holding rubbish cards and it's time somebody removed him from the table before the damage is irreparable. I thought he had the perfect out when he was handed the... — read more 

GSP and overlays got hit hard last August. Sad thing is: most of the good, flexible talent was in overlays....these were the people that knew multiple technologies and could fix broken depts/solutions. Now most of them are gone to competitors.

Hi, curious to know what happen to RSUs if you are LRd or leave the company. RSUs seem to dried out. Not received any so far.

Rumor is layoffs in May. Dedicoat has to cut 500M in opex. Anyone else heard that?

A question regarding RSU Grants: Does anyone know if the RSU grant will happen this fall after the LR takes place? I am really not sure if this is the right place for asking, but I have nowhere else to go. Also, do we know if we get more now there be... — read more 

Chambers at CBNC http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/video=3000613738

Anybody actually seen a customer use one or if WPR will be installing them in the buildings? Or are they just for show in the EBC or offices of SVP and higher?

The two biggest markets in IT today, IoT and Cloud and we still don't have a clear strategy. Maybe we should hire some more overpaid and underqualified CTOs to not come up with ideas.

What is pay range for a 10+ experience on grade 10 cisco in SF area?

When is the next round? September-November or even sooner?

I want out!

Cisco's current and future failings comes down to some basic psychology. When it comes to careers people aren't programmed to think beyond their retirement, for obvious reasons. If a persons job is expendable then their focus is shorter term. In most... — read more 

At last year's year-end financial call, the CEO said that Cisco would reinvest the cost savings from its restructuring plan into "key priority areas such as security, IoT, collaboration, next generation data center and cloud." It's been almost 9... — read more 

SJ Campus is buzzing on the direction of cuts. Big LR in engineering coming. Will hit route switch, wifi, shuttering NDS among other things. If you are in engineering it's like dodge ball these days. This is a horrible place to work. Innovation s---s... — read more 

I think my manager is lying to me, when he says that I'm already close to the upper range of pay for my grade. If I ask him about my CR, and from the number he gives my and my base salary I calculate where the midpoint would be, it gives a... — read more 

FY17 LR's will be announced to the press in July. What are people's predictions on numbers this year and what areas will be cut?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/18fa8e3e-d115-4bd9-b989-5fdfa67125d9

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/18fa8e3e-d115-4bd9-b989-5fdfa67125d9

Organization structure is insane. A typically strong performer is some 10-12 levels away from the CEO. This means, while the compensation is good at the beginning, there is simply no room for a tremendous growth. Company in doldrums: Listen plebe... — read more 

I left Cisco about a year ago due to the uncertainty of employment with constant redundancies and the beyond low moral. However I have come to regret my move for two reasons. Firstly outside of Cisco you have to work. There is none of this hiding... — read more 

It happens only in Cisco. Three layers of VPs and four layers of SVPs? How can you justify such org structure? I am simply amazed.

Why is Cisco filled with career politicians? Cisco Politician Lifecycle Identify buzzword Obtain funding & create organizations to justify their salaries Waste shareholder money + self-promote + build strategic internal relationships Attempt to cover... — read more 

Cisco Intercloud - "Cisco pledges two year, billion dollar investment to build a global network of clouds" - that's from 2014. Fast-forward to 2016, and you can read yet another epitaph carved by The Big Three; "Cisco Kills its $1 billion cloud"... — read more 

After the failure of his Gigital Transformation Group initiative, and messing up some great resources he just passed the failing team to others to clean the mess. In EMEAR they passed the resources under another failing useless group (digital... — read more 

Cisco, a 32-year-old technology company (let that sink in), is facing massive existential threats. Chambers keeps selling his stock...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/aalsin/2017/04/10/ciscos-board-has-some-explaining-to-do/#3e8452074e5d

Good news ladies and gentlemen. RSUs are coming next week. The guidance is to give to 80% of GL10, and to 95% GL11 and GL12. Lower grades only in very specific circumstances. No RSUs this time for G13 and above (on CORP plan), but they received... — read more 

There was a meeting in San Jose last week. Jerusalem's Israel site manager was in San Jose for a meeting with Cisco high management. Probably this is related to SPVSS and its future. Does anyone know anything about this? meeting outcome?

Why are you still at Cisco? If you've left, why are you coming here?

AT&T White box end-to-end test should scare Cisco, Juniper alike.

Does anyone know when the front line "yearly" LR happens? Is it in august? Significant rumors indicate one is coming, wondering how long we have to wait.

We'll be back to free cola and ending layoffs in no time! https://seekingalpha.com/article/4060465-cisco-going-higher

Aside from its poor performance it seems like anyone half decent is looking to leave ASAP or has done so already. When I speak to people in that op, it sounds completely toxic at the moment. I have to say though I'm pleased that the person... — read more 

Seriously, how hard this could be to figure out that if you use 64bit counter to count picoseconds, it will overflow after about 213 days? And what does it say about engineering review process and quality assurance in general?