Something that keeps getting lost in the H1B wars is the difference between a specialized engineer hired directly by a company and someone supplied through a staffing or outsourcing firm. Critics argue that parts of the consulting industry have used... — read more 

Is Cisco going to layoff people in 11/2026 or 02/2027? Which one is more likely? Margin pressure and AI cost will be the primary factors.

Anyone notice he’s all over Twitter lately? Making comments about execs having to be on Twitter and his so-called startup mode at Cisco

Things are tough right now, morale is down SO MUCH on the greater team I am in, in the US. Teams rooms are quiet, people aren't engaging on calls, and so much quiet quitting and real quitting happening. I found myself googling "companies that care... — read more 

[Cisco Employee Discussion Thread] https://redkiosk.com/t/h1b-perm-program-bans/dk6mre

https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2108224420460241076

10/8/2026 - BREAKING: Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling: "I am hereby suspending from the Permanent Labor Certification Program some of the largest IT outsourcing firms in the world - Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini - and... — read more 

3 years ago I decided to quiet quit and then skate along I thought that it was only a matter of time before I get fired for taking advantage of the system to the max. I started preparing for the job hunting phase again as I fully expected to get... — read more 

2 years out from my LR, and honestly, looking back, the place made Microsoft seem non-political. The backstabbings and inter-team fights were constant. I've been in product design (UX) for a long time, and I've never seen a company that knew less... — read more 

Sus

Looks like the bonus letter for lower than 1 IPF employees are withheld till November 4, 2026. Is this a standard Cisco practice as it already happened in the past? Or is it something is in the plan for November 2026?

My experience with Cisco management has been that protecting the existing hierarchy matters more than helping employees succeed. I've watched good people get stuck while management keeps doing the same thing. If your goal is to advance your career... — read more 

LFG has proven without a doubt that portfolio sales and engineering leadership has led to losing market share. With more portfolio AEs and SEs as a result of LFG, the numbers look worse than ever before. We have no specialists to call and come in to... — read more 

"The most innovative companies shouldn't view AI as a cost-reduction play." Learn why #AI can be a catalyst for greater innovation and customer value from Cisco Chair & CEO @ChuckRobbins

As a Sales OD in US Commercial, it is obvious we need more specialist engineers as our portfolio SEs are not able to discuss technologies and architectures beyond route switch. It is a disaster and we need engineering specialists. Our Area SE... — read more 

anyone been asked to set this thing up? Not sure if its going to be required but it sounds freaking stupid having it push new trainings on us when overloaded with enough cr-p already.

Cisco's AI talk is the Potemkin village; the balance sheet is still routers and switches. Cisco wasn't in the room where the real AI titans sat. Maybe because everyone already knows a Potemkin village doesn't get invited to the palace

The LR list deadline for Sr Directors/VP was September 24th, is there a number/percentage cut communicated yet ?

I've never known anyone to be laid off while on medical leave. Are there other criteria being used in these decisions? Have people dealing with hardships been let go before, such as financial struggles, single-income households, or caring for an... — read more 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-revealed-seating-chart-big-173510692.html

How does one get promoted as a PE? How many hours do I have to put in?

I’ve heard the new my performance thing is a way to speed run the PIP because they can use AI to summarize your history and check if it can justify a PIP. Want to get out of here via LR not PIP preferably. Anyone know if there’s gonna be one in... — read more 

So glad I got stock options that will be worth nothing here soon. Yay!!!

Cisco had a 4000 employer layoff in May. Heard from other layoff site another is coming in November

Code42 installed the following: Your organisation added "com.code42.agent.extension", which can access your data, monitor your keyboard and websites, record your screen, and more. I know this shthle of a company can monitor stuff but what the... — read more 

if you set your pay to automatically buy stocks and the bonus comes in they will use a percent of that to buy stocks, right ? What is the price we would be buying at ? Does it make sense to buy at the current high values ?

2024: G8, 10% merit increase, no RSU 2025: G9 promo, 10% merit increase, no RSU 2026 (different manager): G9, 2% merit increase, no RSU Is this a normal progression? Genuine question as this is the lowest merit increase I have seen and ever gotten

A quote from the judge from the Caddyshack movie; decades ago. Also applies to your current lack of promotion.

Our OD and SSEM continue to show the their incompetence. We now have to track things on a spreadsheet cause they don’t know how to use actual tools to lead the business. This is a prime example of why Cisco is continuing to lose market share. These... — read more 

Does anyone know what the he-l happened to the IPF calculation? What the heck did Cisco change specifically? I have a split of people getting decent IPFs, but quite a few people getting absolutely sc--wed too.

I got the same bonus as a deadbeat performance issue. So much for sticking it out until the end to help out as opposed to disappearing - LRd because of position elimination may as well have said everyone was a performance issue. Csco su-ks from chuck... — read more 

Leaving or getting fired?

I got hired and been rockstar for the last 3 weeks. I’m getting great feedback from the cross functions teams and manager. I don’t get why the promotion hasn’t hit yet. I brought this up to my manager and he keeps saying it’s too soon. That’s... — read more 

G10, 120% IPF, no merit, no RSU this year Last year, 122% IPF, no merit, but at least gave $20 RSU

FOUR YEARS...

They’re making me work all day and night and I’m causing tons of regressions. Don’t think I’m fit to work here. Coworkers are asking for proof for every little thing I want to merge now. Want to leave just need that $10k from unemployment that’s a... — read more 

HR is a mess the end

Just got that my IPF is 132, but no promo. 2 prior years it was 125. Are we really that tight on budget?