Does anyone have any insights on how the lists are being prepared?

Let me make it clear, I hate constant layoffs and how much the company and its core values have changed in the last 5+ years, but I still like my job. It's challenging and I have great coworkers, an amazing manager, and good pay. I'm on this forum... — read more 

Since migrating business management to Salesforce, this misguided approach has only spread. These clueless executives naively believe that analyzing historical data can truly guide the economy，have they forgotten the lessons of the Soviet Union?... — read more 

For fear of layoff and what’s ahead. Meeting getting cancelled 😠

Worked at Cisco for 17+ years, got LR'ed, no problem I thought, I'll find something. See I figured that if someone asked me why I stayed so long, I'd explain about how I changed roles every 3-5 years, changed jobs, big company so can move around... — read more 

Personally I've already quit working until the LR announcements. Either I'll get an extra month of free pay, or I'm starting the new unlimited time off early.

This morning I almost threw up from being nervous just from having to go to work. This is not how life and work balance should be, and this should not be a reaction any of us have just from thinking about work. I think we are not even aware of how... — read more 

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https://www.cisco.com/c/m/en_us/solutions/ai/readiness-index/assessment-tool.html Meanwhile, in other altered versions of reality...

Do you get to know how much total severance you will be getting during 1 on 1 firing call on sept 16th or its just a quick script read by your manager and we will come to know later from HR what is the actual process here. Every individual severance... — read more 

No job is safe. Make job search a monthly ritual Practice interviews and take every interview opportunity even if you don’t want job Win the job. You can always turn it down later Tailor each Résumé for every job, repeating job post phrases... — read more 

I know some of them are phantom job postings and some have probably been filled already, but out of that many, I hope some are bound to result in a response. I plan to keep on doing this every weekend until I have a way out. Laid off or not, I'm not... — read more 

Do they have the power to remove someone from a list? I think someone mentioned a “business case”’ earlier but not sure what they meant

LRs? If you want to improve productivity eliminate the Checkins or LR the people fawning over ELT hairstyles in the chat. clear they spend all day just su-king up to bosses and producing nothing useful.

A little Cisco Primer and why you are about to be LR'd The start of Cisco's Fiscal Year is August 1 Q1 (August , September , October) Q2 (November , December , January Q3 (February , March , April ) Q4 (May , June , July) The previous fiscal year's... — read more 

9/11

No wonder Cisco is laying off. They obviously don’t monitor their work from home employees. Gardening, exercising, running out to stores…..heck I’d love a job like that!

As we all brace for 9/16, I hope aren’t impacted. But, if you feel like you might be, I wanted to share a few thoughts that might help: Prioritize Your Health: Make sure you and your family take care of any medical, dental, and eye appointments... — read more 

I am planning to relocate after this LR. There is no Cisco office where I want to go so I am assuming there might be some local partners where I could apply for a job

At this recent GSX, Jeetu made an interesting comment at one of the big stages in front of thousands of employees. “If you are thinking about leaving Cisco, that’s the stupidest decision you’re going to make”, he said. If you were at GSX, how did... — read more 

Thanks to everyone i've worked with, it was a pleasure. Thank you shitco for the sleepless nights and pulling 90 hours a week to make the products better. Not even a package to keep food on my table. Fu-k you Chucky, im happy that you got roasted in... — read more 

Specially true during LR time. In corporate world it’s dog eat dog, and any appearance of friendship is just outward superficially fake. Loyalty is to job and managers I have seen being a 20+ veteran, in the hope for prolonging our careers. It’s a... — read more 

Here comes another LR

“It is now expected that layoffs this fall could result in as many as 300,000 job losses for 2024” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/company-most-layoffs-2024-175740993.html yikes

Don't do Cisco any favors. Let them pay you to get rid of you.

Do any of you know somebody who was laid off in the last round? As in, know them well enough to know how they're doing now? If they managed to find a new job and how long did it take them to find it? It'd be nice to have some kind of a reference for... — read more 

15 years back, Cisco is much better place to work than Oracle. Now, look at OCI and their employees. Cisco is no where a close, Cisco lost the game to many other employers

09/04 - We'll invite leaders with impacted team members to LR training 09/05-06 - Training for Leaders (we'll give them a script to follow, DOs and DON'Ts) 09/09 - We will notify Leaders who is part of the LR (again some FLMs already know... — read more 

Execs know that cuts in the short term leads big bonuses, so expect more layoffs to continue

Chuck will not GO anywhere in anyway, whatever the business performance is , he will be here until the END of the Cisco.

CSCO is closing more buildings in the east coast by Q3 of 2025.

I have an opportunity to join the ThousandEyes BU led by Joe Vaccaro. Does anyone have any experience with this BU? Also, how is ThousandEyes doing, are selling more or less of it?

Cisco and other tech companies have been outsourcing US jobs to India, East Europe, Canada and other countries for more profitability. While there is constant layoffs in the US, it must be illegal to hire citizens of other countries just because they... — read more 

“What about other locations APJC and EMEA? Is any real impact getting felt there” Any one have any ideas if TAC in Europe is actually safe?

This article talks about a trend where Cisco SVPs are selling Cisco stocks but none of them are buying them. This is very concerning and a sign of SVPs giving up. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/insider-sale-svp-chief-accounting-051519689.html — read more 

I can't seem to find any information on LR package for Canada. Most posts talk about the states. What is it expected to be or what was it back in February? Do you get to keep all the manulife benefits for a certain period?

What does hard work get you at Cisco? Just the privilege of being used, abused, and stepped on before they decide you've become too expensive and replace you with somebody from another country who might not work nearly as hard as you but costs ten... — read more 

I have read several posts regarding 60day period and need to know why Zi can not join another job before 60 days. Assuming manager officially tells me you are LRed on 16th September. Does it mean legally I should not accept any other outside job... — read more 

When will Cisco learn? overspending and overproduced Cisco GSX. Over 20k people. Ryan Reynolds and Maroon 5?? Seriously? Who is managing this spend? How can Cisco continue to spend like this while it’s also cutting people and jobs? When will it... — read more 

New team in Cisco Networking Americas have so much uncertainty. Every direct leader under Jen Kirkpatrick and Kraus are asked to interview for their own roles. Anyone hearing anything? What’s in store for the field sales teams in AMER? Meraki teams... — read more