I was curious what everyone's outlook on TS (Technical Services) was. With quite a slump in hardware sales I imagine this is affecting the sales of service and support to a degree.

Take a look at the images and stories on the CEC home page and on Glassdoor and have that paint a picture for you. The marketing tells the story, in every human-interest story and in every picture: A gaggle of smiling 20 something's in t-shirts doing... — read more 

Someone said: "Attract, hire, retain" - This is where ELT is letting us down, and The Beat showed it. Basically the message is, "Be happy, we are. What's wrong with you? You should be happy! If you are not, leave." Well, a young star in our... — read more 

He typically gives two quarters for troubled groups to improve. He himself has now a year of failures, and declining outlook. How much time do you think he has left? Will he hang on for any cost or at some point call it a day and resign on his own... — read more 

I do not want to be laid off - nobody wants it. Yet, there are many rumors about potential job cuts here in San Jose.

We are a small sized site in Europe of under 200 employees. Less than two years ago a guy from Bangalore arrived for four months upskilling and to help to "improve relations" between our site and our remote counterparts in India where we had scrum... — read more 

I am really concerned about the core business. We are in decline, investment seems to be constrained, and I don't trust my leaders. Not to mention that we were told the lawsuit would stop Arista. I am starting to believe that people are just lying... — read more 

After a few quarters of growth to great fanfare from Trollope, things seemed to have returned to the bad 'ol days of negative growth. Collaboration as a business was prioritised by Cisco two years ago and sales guys were incentivized to sell collab... — read more 

Does anybody know how many people were laid off in Nov.?

It has been over a year since Fran rolled out The People Deal. I have seen less and less splash from HR and Fran on how it has made a difference. I also can't for the life of me figure out what it is besides a tagline, an ability for your manager to... — read more 

What are your top 3 target companies when you leave Cisco?

I have a couple of offers in the bag from other companies who are more where the markets at. I'm just gutted that I didn't get LR'd and paid to leave! I was hoping there might be some Christmas layoffs and I could try to be one of them, but this now... — read more 

Was it just me or did most the ELT look worn out during Beat? Chuck and Chris both looked like they were on an all night bender before turning up and Rowan isn't looking that fresh lately. Must be stressful at the top.

What are your thoughts? Rumors? News? Updates?

Today I overheard a woman say "They can't lay me off because I am a woman and there is not enough women in tech." As woman I must apologize for these feebleminded hypocrites who demand equality but quickly use their gender as a shield of protection... — read more 

The latest earnings report was pretty mediocre, as expected. It raises the question as to how long the new execs have before they get fired or leave. Any thoughts?

Look, the announcement about Cisco's challenging outlook was part of their layoff strategy all along. The decision to make bigger, deeper cuts was formulated months ago, but to sell this to the investors without spooking them, they needed to soften... — read more 

So revenue is down...... Big surprise there! So will we see more cuts in Q2 now? After all the dividend needs to keep growing, otherwise the pension and hedge funds will start going elsewhere.

True - he is finally out. Confirmed.

Any word on what's happening in the marketing and comms teams?

ONLY 42 LO in SJ a couple of week ago... I love cisco! http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/WARN_Report_for7-1-2016_to_11-10-2016.pdf

Headcount down 1326 in Q1 FY17 according to today's announcement.Is it really only 1326 ? Some of the acquisitions I guess might hide the real number here.

I am in RTP and was laid off two weeks ago. Wondering what the tax implications are of signing the paperwork and taking the package? Is the 3 months salary, COBRA money and PTO paid to me as a "bonus" or will it look like regular income? I am trying... — read more 

I am so tired of dealing with LinkedIn requests to add a recruiter to my network so they can talk with me about a position, only to find out that it's a position that needs to be filled on my old team. Cisco wants a less experienced person at a lower... — read more 

I had been working on agile projects for on-premise projects but about a year ago our entire team of 40 people moved to cloud based work on a Continuous Integration deployment model. In this CI model we are deploying new code into production or at... — read more 

IoT, IoE, Smart Grid, Smart Cities......all of it an attempt to find new markets and all too late to the game. The ability to turn a Philips light bulb pink from blue from your iPhone is not going to right this ship.

Going to be graduating college in a year and was offered a position on the San Jose TAC team (no specific team known yet). I was curious if anyone knows of layoffs in the TS sector as well as where you think the future of TS is going. Are these SJ... — read more 

What is the future of this company in Smart Cities ? There seems to be a lot of advertising in the newspapers about this.

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Cutting the tribe (Patel, Biri) was a first step. Now all of the ELT should be fired for ruining a Fortune 500 company and destroying lives of the innocent, hard workers thanks to vile ego & greed. The Cisco Board of Morons are too chicken sh-- to... — read more 

Given the interaction I notice during executive leadership team meetings, Chuck listens more to Kelly Kramer than to his own product SVPs. Can you believe this? That's what happens when you have a sales monkey without any technology understanding at... — read more