H1-B holders are disappearing Next trip is heavily tax and higher tariff on companies hiring on offshore operations.

Acknowledge if impacted this cycle. There are numbers out as large as 7000 LRed this cycle as notified on Aug 13, 2025 but there is no formal place to sum it up. Are WARN notices available and what age group employees with locations impacted…. This... — read more 

Heard about opex freeze - should we expect more layoffs ?

TATA Consulting Services CEO K. Krithivasan says no new H-1B hiring soon, with a shift to growing local staff in the US and other markets. TCS will renew some existing H-1Bs, but aims to boost local participation, citing AI projects that need closer... — read more 

Well that’s it today day number 60, I wish you all well, for those still at Cisco and those like myself moving on. Take care of yourselves, your family, and your red stapler.

https://fortune.com/2025/10/11/cisco-chief-product-officer-jeetu-patel-rags-to-riches-service-industry-job-helped-rise-to-c-suite-lesson-for-gen-z/

https://youtu.be/zcwqTkbaZ0o?si=9QKhLFHVKEhzAWqg Sure, Cisco is integral to the future of AI. Just look at how much this example AI datacenter relies on Cisco gear. The writing is on the wall. Nothing! We Are Cisco. We Are Nortel; Part 2.

All that's been happening are random cost-cutting and chaos. I honestly don't see much of a future here anymore.

Insider sources indicate that the announcement will be during Q1 earnings call in November.

The merger of the orgs is s disaster Tools were not ready for the extra users SEs are not well trained Figures are terrible Not enough SE coverage

I've heard November and February. Anyone else?

It is a dying company, better be sold before it went down to ZERO

I started to hear rumors that an LR is in the works for 2HFY26. With the government shutdown, bookings could be soft. If there is a smoke, there is fire somewhere.

The SLT and legal team are experts ant appearing to follow the law while behind the scenes, discriminating on age and other attributes; anything to make the stock price go up. Real business leaders don’t layoff good loyal people during good times... — read more 

What's the current situation? "Asking for a friend."

https://guestworkervisas.com/gwv/jobs_direct.php

Try to delete a folder that has a bunch of files in it (around 100-200M If that is slow ...you are under surveillance Compare with deleting that folder on your home computer SSD access times are pretty much the same. If you are running the same OS... — read more 

Especially knowing that a bunch of my co-workers in the same orgs were silently laid off a couple of months ago for "business decisions". Exemplary leadership making people at the bottom rungs of the ladder do double the work now so we can pay for... — read more 

I'm slowly starting to see more and more Cisco employees update their LinkedIn, stating that they're open to work. Naturally, I'm curious if silent layoffs are happening and how big this one really is.

I see some posts with people saying Cisco is making people to work from the office/hybrid now. Is that a mandatory for everyone? I know that big % of company is still 100% remote, so I'm interested how things can change in the coming monts for EMEA

the RTO is so successful that they have already had to resort to bribery. This week there are raffles for iPad, iPods, Grills/Air Fryers etc, what an absolute cluster

Its unreal how a company who's ELT is so focused on a greater society just breeds hate. Like wow, you ppl are horrible humans.

Tell us the ridiculous feedback you received from your manager in 1-1 coaching or PIP meetings.

Say you had a dispute with him. He was clearly at fault and tried to hide it. Now he wants you gone and he made it happen. Right after being informed that you have to go, can you appeal the decision by let's say contact everybody you can above his... — read more 

Is Gong.ai used by ELT for layoffs? what about our private phones that have the Meraki stack installed? always on surveillance?

Who is looking forward to our every word being monitored?!

Hi folks, if we accept a job within the 60 day WARN period and start, are we still eligible for severance?

Specifically asking for Engineers … Who is likely to let go in next round of LRs? Remote workers who can not come to office or H1B people based on new policy changes

Obviously leaving is the best course of action (working on that lol), but how do folks deal with incompetence with their management? I can’t think of one thing my manager does to protect the team, and we are the last people to learn about anything. ... — read more 

US layoffs fell in September, but hiring plans dropped to their lowest level in 16 years, according to new data. At the same time, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway agreed to acquire Occidental Petroleum’s OxyChem unit in a $9.7 billion deal, Tesla... — read more 

Why are Principal Engineers taking on reportees and performing managerial duties? Isn’t this a fundamental misuse of the role? A Principal Engineer is supposed to be a senior technical authority, driving architecture, innovation, and solving the most... — read more 

Will Cisco engage in another round of layoffs? yes. 100% Will Cisco LRs happen next week? in November on the Q1 earnings call? in February on the Q2 earnings call? in May for Q3 or August for Q4/FY ? yes, probably. Is Cisco bad? no. Cisco us a... — read more 

Cisco cannot help itself!! They confuse everyone! Especially our ENTIRE CUSTOMER BASE! Renaming Firewalls, Routers, Switches, FMC, CDO, HyperFabric, NEXUS HyperFabric, Nexus switch, 6000 series switch, ki-l the Catalyst Brand, bring it back, Just... — read more 

People leave managers due to their behavior politics and secret meetings with trusted people

It has been said time and time again that Return to Office is not mandated. Yet leadership has mentioned that there will be people walking around auditing who is present. Has Cisco gone full on micro managing?

Anyone else here feeling exhausted? And I mean really exhausted? Anyone noticing team dynamic and personality changes? Speaking to many colleagues seems like many are feeling this way but feel helpless that the continued re-org, endless trainings... — read more 

LRs coming soon in Nov (internal sources)

What is next ? How to combine your s-xual life with AI ? Cooking with AI ? The obedience and mindless attempts to align themselves with the latest buzzwords, "putting some Windex" in just anything that comes their way is amazing and it requires... — read more 

1H is almost done. Does anyone else still feel off, or, better yet, has anyone figured out what the big issue is, why it feels like it's busier than usual, and why some senior leadership is jumping ship? 🤔