President Trump, As U.S. tech giants like Cisco shift more of their software development overseas, it’s not just American jobs that hang in the balance—it’s trust, security, and strategic capability. While software may dodge tariffs by flowing... — read more 

Praying for all those in engineering groups

They plan to cut 20% of staff, that brings the revenue per employee to $800k. The long term goal is to achieve $1M revenue per employee.

What grade level is a product manager and what grade level is a senior product manager at cisco?

Can anyone tell what is the target bonus for principal engineer in San Jose.

Just heard that it has started layoff. They have notified the exec leader who got impacted. Do not know what will happen to his team any idea?

You could be at Intel right now. 20k job cuts

This will be an ugly one. 5000 worldwide. Failed RTO is the cause.

Going out of business sale, like in the dot-com era, everything must go, tables, chairs, monitors, toilet paper… $1 each item, hopefully a little bit of money will be returned to investors.

6700 employees have to go before the end of FY25.

Not updated on internal news… and curious. Did he eject or was ejected.

Bye All Had nice time in Cisco I feel it’s like govt company with little turbulence

Some ex cisco, signed k and we all know now k stands for. Now another guy is signing P, then what does it stand?

Does anyone know if Cisco currently has a hiring freeze in place? If so, is it company-wide or specific to certain departments?

Leadership are looking at segmentation now This will impact resources allocated to the various segments Commercial, SMB etc It is likely more emphasis will be put on channel to drive these segments ergo, a reduction in personnel

With whatever is happening post trump policies, looks like this time it will be big.

Wondering if being let go in one of the situations where its just 4 or 5 people from a team rather than the large 5% of the company layoff if severance is provided or if its just unemployment insurance one would receive. I suspect our team will be... — read more 

On internal call our leaders acknowledged the logistics challenges this administration created. But still put brave face that we have diverse channel. Don’t think they are telling the whole... — read more 

Engineers are required to share desks lol

Looks like the most prominent rabble rouser has left the building.

Nothing to do on a weekend? Read this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/137csr0/why_the_hate_for_cisco/

Is this slow start towards for demoralizing and a PIP? Others seeing this as a trend? Could be related to change of re-focus, Cisco is retuning as an AI company? Does this surprise you when manager suddenly seem to target direct reports?

managers use the performance process as a means of s-xual harassment. They undermine and demotivate the employee by doing performance improvement process. Instead of doing layoff , they make the employee forcibly resign and give up claims of suing. I... — read more 

So I worked for Cisco during the pandemic, but resigned during that period. I went for greener pastry specifically salary. Although, I did receive an increase in salary, I am worried that layoffs are slowly approaching as I can feel it. My question... — read more 

This leadership is going to cost us in fines when they get audited.

Now it’s all rules, no thinking. Too many meetings, too many forms, zero guts. They ki-led what worked to worship spreadsheets. We used to create things - now we just push paper. What a waste.

There are LRs and Restructuring coming to US Commercial Sales and Engineering. Operation consolidation will happen. Small regions are going to be consolidated. Can’t have regions that have a fraction of a goal of true Select regions.

Good luck with 2H goals. Cisco ELT is clueless!

Things at Cisco are about to get very expensive and business will nose dive with tariffs. Subsequently expect to see layoffs. The results of decades of bad decisions are about to be felt. Outsourcing manufacturing reduces domestic job opportunities... — read more 

Got my grade increase. Now a new SVP is coming in. Are we growing again? Anyone know much about this SVP that we are getting in CX?

Albeit from a competent company. # Zscaler AI + zero trust Zscaler's inline zero trust architecture applies effective AI guardrails to ensure safe use of public AI, protect private AI from malicious attacks, and stop AI-powered threats. With the... — read more 

Outsource, hire cheap labour, cut costs. The stock goes up and a gangster ceo makes 60 millions in a year. The products are garbage, sell most to the government, who cares.

Since I left Cisco at the beginning of last year, I haven't come across Webex anywhere - really nowhere. No devices either. I mostly had interviews on Zoom or Microsoft and rarely on Google Meets. Even now in the new company and with external... — read more 

Tariffs have the PowerPoint & Excel farm working overtime. Let the good times roll.

Fortune delivers again, baby! I'm just wondering how much it cost this time to rank us this high. https://fortune.com/ranking/best-companies/

Cisco colleagues, I'm curious if anyone has navigated a similar situation. I was hired in the US on an F1 visa, which has since expired. I opted for a relocation to Canada, offered by Cisco. Now, I'm pondering the feasibility of a future return to... — read more 

Women middle/first line manager are often protected from layoffs due to DEI quota requirement for management position.

It is a complete joke that SEs have virtual training while our leaders have in-person training. Our commercial leadership posting pics of their ATL trip is an insult.