What is the product? Seriously what do i buy? ANother suite of applications / hardware?

How many useless meetings do you have to sit through during a single week? So much of it is completely useless. Why, why do I need a 1:1 with my manager every single week? Spoiler alert, I really don't! I'm getting so tired of wasting my time while I... — read more 

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-performance-cuts-mark-zuckerberg-memo

Share your xp.

Not much difference in pay from grade 11 to 12 (in USA), but many who get promoted, find themselves expecting to produce much more that leads to lower IPF, few have been LRed. Should one accept Grade 12 or just hang my hat with Grade 11, and be glad... — read more 

With a bang

Amazon recently “scrubbed” webpages titled “Equity for Black people” and “LGBTQ+ rights” from its “Our Positions” section on its website. Will Cisco follow suit with abandoning marxist polices of Discrimination Exclusion and Indoctrination and move... — read more 

Long time working at Cisco, I have seen many not so good individual contributors (IC) taking this FLM route to get promoted and become a manager. IMO this was the best route for these folks, else they would be out of a job soon doing the same not so... — read more 

It’s in the process. Announcement in Feb. Pretension of consultation emails and associated song & dance farce including crocodile tears and “Change is the only constant” BS till April, and then the chop. CP and DM had demanded names prior to the... — read more 

Apparently a new role has been created… to once again secure the job of certain „well connected“ people? ... or why is there now for example suddenly a COO role for EMEA?!

Cisco was once a leader in M&A as well as Innovation. Now M&A replaces Innovation at Cisco and we can't even do a M&A right anymore either. BroadSoft was mentioned, and it had so much potential at Cisco, and did well for a few years, now Calling is... — read more 

It won’t help. You can work your a-s off, and they’ll still kick you to the curb. Cisco is like any other big corporation - you are just a number, and when your time is up you’ll be gone regardless of your value. To avoid regretting the extra effort... — read more 

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/cisco/salaries/software-engineer/levels/principal-engineer The link above shows Half Million? Is it true? Cisco principal engineer get paid this much?

The H1B visa program is designed to bring skilled workers to the U.S., but the hiring process for these workers needs to be streamlined for efficiency and integrity. Verify Authenticity of H1B Candidates: Companies should ensure that H1B... — read more 

Don’t ever get sick or need medical assistance in the US. Healthcare here is a joke and Cisco just made it worse by switching from Cigna.

Title says it all

May another year pass with layoffs and all Cisco people impacted hopefully land in better jobs.

I was let go in November and signed up for COBRA. I found out I was not covered in December, however, Cisco will debit my account for this insurance for December. Consequently, there is no consideration for the insurance, AND Cisco is going to pick... — read more 

Cisco loves H1-B H-1B visas encourage the exploitation of workers. The H1-B program is being gamed through false job postings that are intended not to be filled but instead to provide justification for H1-B abuse. This drives down labor costs for... — read more 

The Philly Fed just flagged another 653,000 fake jobs. On top of the 818,000 BLS revised away last year. ~1.5 million fake jobs. Yes, it’s that bad.

Elongated Muskrat woke up America about the H1B scam with his dr-g fueled rant over the Christmas holiday. Now Mr. and Mrs. America know how they feel about us. If Trump doesn't shut down H1, all of his house and senate cronies will get... — read more 

I’m not looking for rumors, has there been any credible news or updates?

Is there any link for external folks to check Cisco employee medical benefits, like the plan options, copay, deductibles and out of pocket maximum.

How do I get my name in the layoffs?

Here we go again…. The fun that never stops and gets boring. 🥱

I got LR’ed this year and landed a job at a company that’s winning Cisco accounts all the time.. they’re seen as low-hanging fruit, specifically in security. There’s so much satisfaction in beating Cisco using my deep knowledge of the company and... — read more 

Only a few key personnel are (e)nlightened, (e)xperienced (e)mpowered, and truly (e)ducated; to make the necessary business steps to continue Cisco's (e)volution into 2025. Have a great Holiday and Thank You for your contribution. Remember it is... — read more 

Cisco management alway do the nepotism. Why the he-k so many directors in M&A team ? There are all made into safe haven by parking them in M&A team when there was sweeping during Feb and Oct layoff. What is the value add of these directors in M&A... — read more 

We're now at the point where it doesn't even exist anymore. I've come to hate this place.

You can only cut costs so much until you destroy the company. There has never been meaningful and thoughtful reorganization, real vision, and any effort to modernize and invest in the future. We have just been losing ground until we are no more. — read more 

One of my former teammates who was laid off in the last round never had anything but stellar reviews and was always praised as one of the best employees on the team - with good reason. If he was laid off without a second thought, then it really is... — read more 

It is extremely unlikely that cisco will be seen as a stand-alone company in a decade time from now. HPE will take over most of the enterprise market share, where as Arita’s dominance will continue in cloud . With fierce completion in security from... — read more 

Someone had vested interested to bring in Cisco as early adopters who is that ? the whole team now is in Docusign. It is all white collar corruption In the history of Cisco, there are multiple redundant softwares across different BUs with those... — read more 

It feels like we’ve been hit over and over again for the past several years, and it's not just us, it's been tough on the entire tech industry. That made it even harder for those who were laid off to find new jobs. Is there any sign that things might... — read more 

For those no longer at Cisco so we too can enjoy and celebrate with you out there. What did we miss?

Hangs out with celebrities and golfs all the time. Nice of him to show up to “work” today.

Me and a coworker are handing in our notice soon. Both managed to get jobs in AI and cloud security, respectively. Would Nvidia or Azure be considered competitors to Cisco? I'm trying to figure out if I should not disclose my new employer's name, or... — read more