All of the anxious people posting lies here need to STOP

Does everyone submit your feedback on your Boss in The Real Deal bot survey ? My boss never reminded me to take this survey anytime ;) Are they scared? Is this for real or another junk

https://fortune.com/2025/11/12/next-level-leadership-cisco-leaning-on-recruitment-upskilling-staff-ai-era/

I heard from a reliable source

The next days are going to be bad. I cannot wait to see the forward looking projections lies about AI revenue

Cisco doesn’t share any data on individuals or teams layoffs

I want a few of my colleagues to be laid off. I rather see them suffer and unemployed than me

Has anyone noticed that since MM/V2-momma left the credible LR leaks has gone way down?

Layoffs aren’t stopping (I’m not just talking about Cisco, but literally everywhere), the available jobs are dwindling, and everything is starting to look like we’re going to he-l in a handbasket. Just the thought of losing my job right now is making... — read more 

It could be the "read the script" training which I think it predates the act I am seeing all the guys I know in meeting right now my guy was supposed to get back to me on a matter and he did not do it, so I had the curiosity to check In general, I... — read more 

Cisco is jumping on the 2025 "AI-washing" bandwagon and will cut legacy roles and hire specialists. Total predicted: 8,500 jobs cut with severance of 6 months + stock vesting acceleration Why? The internal AI enshitification is in full bloom... — read more 

If so then your org is impacted for Nov LRs

Those days Cisco file lawsuits against Huawei and Arista, Cisco thought it was too good. Huawei now has a chip that is already 1,300 faster than the best chip out of NVIDIA, never mind Huawei has beeter phones than Apple. Of course networking... — read more 

Job market keeps getting tougher with series of layoffs announcement. Latest is IBM…...

Is this true. G2 said it would be available in September or October. It worked so good on the release demo.

This has been the well rehearsed blueprint.

Hearing from multiple sources that a layoff is planned for November 14th?

AI from Cisco has no real impact Cisco AI is a fake AI

Regarding layoffs specifically in November 2025, Cisco is preparing to eliminate approximately 2,000 to 3,000 jobs by early November as part of a cost-saving effort aimed at achieving $2 billion in annual savings. However, the exact dates for these... — read more 

Anyone worked with teams in Kraków - any experiences?

https://archive.ph/Fj2c0

Hm, do we usually have the self reflection at this time of the year? Something fishy going

What a coincidence. Check the career pages, it says that due to an upgrade the open jobs can’t be shown. Until Nov 13. When earnings will be published. Big LR and hiring freeze incoming

Cisco was mentioned : https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2025-10-31/major-market-top-despite-record-ai-rally-strategist-warns

In the past 2 years Prabhat Singh had lead the group to sink. He is not allowed to hire. Everyone is leaving him. Teams have shrunk by 50% because people we're unhappy. He expects people to work on the weekends so outages will happen on Saturday and... — read more 

to those in california, is it a good idea to file for unemployment benefit?

AI Ambassador does what?

Anyone else seeing what’s happening in GVSE right now? From what I’m hearing, any new roles are being restricted to grade 7/8s. Combine that with all the automation initiatives being pushed on us (auto discounts, auto del reg approvals, auto emails... — read more 

My manager said he cannot afford to lose anyone on his team. No more reqs in the near future and it doesn't look good to have less than eight reports.

https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-ends-automatic-extension-of-employment-authorization

Not like anyone would know if you did lol

Been giving it serious thought, as I have been job searching and finding little movement or activity from applying, agency recruiters, etc. It might be due to now in Q4 and "circle back season", but I wonder if I should use this time to explore other... — read more 

Politics over work Preferences over people Too much favorism Such mind set allowed to grow Arista All DC leaders should be fired in next layoff

It sounds like the VP gave some pretty blunt advice regarding career progression for first-level managers. If the manager doesn't transition to an IC, they might be at risk of getting a pink slip

Just for kicks I looked at the Cisco jobs site. There are zero openings anywhere. Is the tool broken or did they eliminate all hiring?

https://www.thelayoff.com/arista-networks

If layoff notices go out in Nov, does that mean layoff date falls in 2025 or January of 2026? For the severance check, will there be a little tax reduction in 2026 due to higher standard deductions and inflation-adjusted tax brackets?