If you are under Ileana Rivera, consider your job at risk. Already 8 notified this week

I’m already doing bare minimum, just enough to keep the job. I’ve been looking for another job for a while now, and came across some decent offers. I will just use the time to hone in on the best ones, and, god willing, Cisco will liberate me during... — read more 

All the toxicity and none of the pay

Numerous times we have heard Chuck Robbins and the entire ELT reassure Wall Street and the entire world that the reason for the layoffs was NOT cost cutting, but rather to reallocate resources to other areas of the business in several key areas... — read more 

Has anyone's manager or Dir. or VP hinted at what is coming for the CX org. more especially for CSEs, SPMs? I saw a post here, cuts expected and that Liz doesn't like these roles. It seems that AppD has still kept the customer success/SPM team - is... — read more 

Great article about Cisco layoffs.

https://millionsunn.com/stompn-holler/f/the-system-cisco

I’m in TAC and fairly certain I’ll be affected by this LR. I’m considering taking a leave of absence to prolong the inevitable and give myself more time to job search. I’m feeling quite stressed, and it’s impacting my day-to-day life, so this break... — read more 

Most everyone missed this. Cisco in past has notified affected employees right after earnings, and allowed impacted employees two months salary to look for internal requisitions, basically for doing nothing. This time is different and impacted... — read more 

Genius Cisco Layoff Strategy (evil but genius nonetheless) Cisco ELT has honed this strategy over multiple rounds of firings. Telegraphing the layoff with a leak, creating an excruciating wait, changing PTO policy. These are all well timed and... — read more 

It's a terrible job market. I know several experienced, well qualified people out of work for over a year. More experienced you are, harder it is. 130000 people from just Tech sector has already been laid off this year as per layoffs.fi All the... — read more 

Use the following month to: Update your resume and skills (there isn't much time for the latter, but you can at least start). Start networking. It'll be easier to reach out to somebody regarding a possible job if you contacted them before just to... — read more 

Wondering if managers are aware who is going to be impacted or even they are blindsided ?

Hypothetical question: say you get laid off on September 16, but accept a job offer outside of Cisco and plan to leave soon after, say September 20. Would LR severance be cut short? A previous comment somewhere else indicated your severance ends as... — read more 

Or one of the acquired teams

The delay in layoffs is nothing but another way for them to save money. They know how mentally taxing this is and how many people will decide that the better option is to leave as soon as they can instead of waiting to see what's going to happen. The... — read more 

Gulf Coast being top region is embarrassing for US Commercial. Our AVP told us that it is a legacy territory region with the smallest goal in the US. AVP stated they should either get a big boy goal or be sent down to SMB and be virtual.

Damn ELT, how is it that you need to take time to work on the LR lists and have the necessary resources available to the impacted workforce, but you already know how many jobs you want to fill with H1B's?! I visited the RTP campus and saw that there... — read more 

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/20/cisco-employees-face-a-month-of-silence-ahead-of-second-layoff-in-2024/

What is everyone doing for this month

What about other GTM organisation roles? And customer facing roles like success program managers, customer success specialists, professional services?

What does this team do?

As many getting laid off during the next months or so, this is time to think and strategize for next career move. Though worry is normal and loss hurts for income flow, don’t jump from one flying pan to another. Think hard and strategize. May be... — read more 

I uploaded my resume last night for the first time in years and had a few voicemails this morning. My advice is to use this time to sharpen your interviewing skills.

The people who developed the company's strategies and plans are now laying off employees because their plans failed. lol

Disinvestment focus area: RON Mobility / 5G enterprise IOT AppD NSO UCS Anything to add ?

Does anyone have information on the exit package in Canada? Lots of posts about the US but not much with Canada

Any SP Sales guys who got LR or any news again. Last Feb SP was cut terrifically.

Title

Accept a time-sensitive job offer right now or wait to see if you'll get severance?

I honestly wouldn't have any issues with layoffs if they were based on performance. Literally, none. Sadly, layoffs have not been performance-based for years. Instead, we keep losing the best performers over and over again. Cisco logic never ceases... — read more 

About 100 of us were part of the 350 to get notified this week. The 350 is not part of the 7% announced in the earnings call. A meeting was put on our calendar Friday afternoon for Monday after the check-in. It was a webinar and we were all forced... — read more 

With all the high-profile departures, does anybody else think Webex might be looking for a new owner soon?

I've only been with Cisco for two years. I'm also single and don't have any kids so if I'm laid off, it's just me I have to worry about. I look at my older coworkers, and some of them seem petrified. It's a completely different situation for most of... — read more 

You didn't miss much. In summary, ELT message was "to su-k it up".

I’m sure there are plenty of folks looking for a way out so would make sense to make voluntary LR an option.

He was looking a bit rough on the call today.