Did anyone hear about it? How many are going to be LRed this cycle?

Just announced on CEC that Jeff Spagnola is leaving Cisco after 26 years.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/cisco-prefers-word-automation-sdn/2017/02/?utm_content=buffer654aa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The previous Cisco ANZ country manager just stated at Citrix Australia as the country VP after being kicked to the kerb along with the hundreds of Cisco ANZ staff every year since 2013. The strategy is to replace what Cisco considers highly paid... — read more 

People are complaining that they are getting the boot because they are old. Age has little to do with it, but energy, freedom of thought, creativity and the ability to take risks are what Cisco needs. Unfortunately when your 40, have a mortgage and 2... — read more 

With the recent uproar against Uber, I can't believe we have not read about Cisco in the news yet. Has anyone else contemplated writing about their experience at Cisco?

Has anyone noticed the trend of increasing fun events and pizza parties . Is this enough to improve the morale ?

Had a customer meeting today and he said he won't buy another Cisco product again until the software quality is proven again. Apparently tons of bugs are causing issues all over the place. Anyone else hearing this?

The future of engineers in TAC is the same as the future of engineers in any other group: Begrudgingly get promoted up to GL 10 - 11 with multiple years in between. Do the best they can to keep you pigeon holed into a specific technology hoping you... — read more 

Heard from a buddy, that they're now working on slashing the rate at which Cisco matches 401k and (more importantly) greatly changing health plans offered in US towards lower coverage and lower Cisco payments. Of course it'll be still at least few... — read more 

Are the letter buildings going away anytime soon? Word in the streets is that some buildings were sold just no information on which lettered buildings.

Run like the wind. Don't consider this place for employment. You will lose your sanity and self worth all do to the psychobabble from ELT, HR people deal and having no clue about where you stand with your manager. One day he tells you how great... — read more 

The axe is swinging. New org changes and leaders put in place are laughable, no vision or communication. What does this tell you about the state of things?

Seems like there is an inverse relationship between the CSCO stock price and the frothiness of the discussions here. As an example......current CSCO price is > USD $32/share. Banter here........almost none. Takeaway: Values, 'outrage' and... — read more 

I just got an invite for tomorrow 9am for an unexpected 1-to-1 with my direct manager. No details on the invite, and he doesn't reply to my emails. So I have bad feelings about that. Anyone else is in similar situation? I'm in SJC.

I wonder how long they'll be able to continue fooling the analysts about reoccurring revenues? KK was asked the question about where they were coming from and after fumbling around she said about 2/3 were from Meraki and Collaboration and the rest... — read more 

With Cisco stock hitting $32.62, I am wondering if this is the right time to offload all the Cisco stocks including the ones that have not yet met the qualifying date. What are the consequences of selling stocks before qualifying date?

Having recently left Cisco I can say it is a company in decline. I joined very recently at the tail end of the John Chambers era. He was a fantastic leader with great vision and ability to inspire. He knew how to sell and how to appreciate technology... — read more 

Its will be carnage, Bloodbath. God save Cisco. Cisco is reporting worst ever results in its 33 yrs of existence. 20K ppl to be laid off.

I heard Israel had some LRs. Anyone else heard anything? How many? Which BU?

I want to get buy some cisco options before earnings. I'm thinking they will beat like always but then guide low... What do you guys think, calls or puts? right now, I'm thinking march 17, 31 puts...

US have admitted 12 million illegal immigrants and they are adding extra burden on resources and Tax payers are supporting these illegals. Why you folks hate H1/L1's or Legal immigrants from India or China. How many Indians and chinese have committed... — read more 

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/02/10/cisco-mpls-mazzola-jain-cafiero-jiandani-pensando.html

There will be 5k gone after Q2 results. Everything is already pre'd. Welcome to the Cisco family.

I think Cisco has lost the plot. In the past 6 months I know 7 or 8 people (myself included) who have resigned - some of whom had been there over 18 years. Not one of them received an exit interview, phone call from HR or anything. No attempt at all... — read more 

Will it take off or just become another failure like the DX80? Great product but the fact you need Spark to run it makes me question if it'll take off.

Anyone hearing what orgs will be hit with February layoffs? Also, #'s assosicated with it? Or is it looking like a large August LR again?

“pattern and practice of hiring discrimination” against qualified White, Hispanic and African American applicants in favor of Asian applicants, namely Asian Indians, in the Professional Technical 1, Individual Contributor and the Product Development... — read more 

I've heard from a reliable source in HR that there is talk about reconsidering the above what's legally required redundancy packages. The reason behind it is that they've realised too many people have now given up and are just waiting for the... — read more 

Why hasn't Cisco taken a stand against the Immigration Ban? 97 companies are standing against it and Cisco isn't. WTF? Is this a "We [again] cannot make up our mind?" or Is it because the boards and councils are still thinking about it?... — read more 

http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2017/01/13/justices-will-weigh-limits-on-worker-rights-to-sue-employers-n2271270

Massive layoffs coming as we are looming at Q2 results. Tough to predict how many people but initial count of 14k which was originally leaked to media will be completed with this round of layoffs. We can easily expect lot of heads to rollon

"Reuters' Stephen Nellis reported this week that ACI software itself may not be doing particularly well. Nellis said he saw documents that showed Cisco had $888 million in contracts for its Nexus 9000 switches but only $89 million for ACI. That means... — read more 

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/31/slack-signs-ibm-and-capital-one.html Funny how when Slack and its competitors are discussed, Spark never comes up. Good night sweet Prince.