It all looks almost like the staged drama by Cisco. Why can’t they be more responsible and mature about announcing and conducting layoffs? We have lives, families, bills to pay, plans.

As the Day of the Long Knives unfolds, share your managers' word-salads/stories in this thread ...

I know we all know what’s coming. I’m just surprised the monthly beats isn’t scheduled? Do you know when they’ll address earnings/the LR?

reposting this, it's a good thread: If the past is, in any way a predictor for the future in this case, it should be preceded by an earnings call (more precisely a missed earnings). I expect this time the things to be rushed a little bit as they... — read more 

Source below (RTP, The News & Observer) Cisco plans to lay off thousands of additional workers this year, according to a Reuters report, in what will be the third significant round of jobs cut at the company in the past 24 months. Citing... — read more 

Does anyone have info as to what the current layoff package is at Cisco? I have a few friends who came over from Splunk and are wondering as layoffs were not really a thing at Splunk.

Praying for my Cisco family Remember this isn't personal rather we sadly suffer the consequences of idiocy at the top This job is a small part of you, next to your friends, family and hobbies

If you are concerned with being LRd you may want to remove any scheduled PTO from workday before it hits. If you don't and lose access you won't get paid for it if the system logs it as taken. You can always reinstate it later if needed.

Chipotle guy would have been a step up for CSCO. Ex fry cook i hear!

Here is the news: https://www.reuters.com/technology/cisco-lay-off-thousands-more-second-job-cut-this-year-sources-say-2024-08-09/

Long time Cisco here. I feel like Cisco destroyed themselves. Have any of you ever worked with Mikrotik gear? Amazingly inexpensive. Highly easy to use. Command line is pretty much linux. The GUI management tool works on an app or a browser. ... — read more 

I've joined six months ago. I'm thinking I might be sc--wed if that's the case.

News has begun to filter down to the rank and file in HR that a majority of the upcoming LR actions will be initiated via AI. Email notifications will be generated and delivered via AI, with first line questions handled via AI chat. Escalations will... — read more 

Seeing goodbye notices on LinkedIn today.

Cisco has been taken over by bean counters who don’t really understand what we do, how we do it and why customers buy from us. A great example of this is Cisco CX operating in its own bubble as a standalone profit centre with leadership obsessively... — read more 

I have no intentions of sticking around to fulfill their fantasies about having half the workforce doing the work that was once done by twice as many people, if not more. If anybody on my team is laid off, I'll be quitting as well. That's why I'm... — read more 

Is this true you have 21 or 45 days before you need to sign off your severance package if you are over 40 years old due to Older Workers Benefits Protections Act (OWBPA) ?

So with the layoffs in Feb, the mandated PTO to dump PTO off the books before another LR plus half bonus(prob.zero bonus in Sept), we now have the 4 year laptop refresh w employee purchase plan(ha ha ha ha) now 2nd LR. I’m trying to think what’s... — read more 

No manager communication, no official layoff status change, right? You can only delay, not change the outcome… BUT if notification date is delayed, you get extra days added till the actual notification. Turn off mobile devices, PC, Internet, no... — read more 

https://boredbat.com/american-workers-are-stuck-in-place-because-everyone-is-too-afraid-of-a-recession-to-quit

It just boggles my mind when Cisco says we won’t lose the AI transformation. Their strategy is to convince enterprises (Who have already gone to the cloud -i.e. Missed once) to build AI infrastructure on UCS and their ethernet platform. Firstly... — read more 

With AI/GenAI advancement in Cisco, why do they need recruiters just to communicate the rejection since hiring manager has already decided whom to onboard. Increase the productivity of HM and recruiters by auto-sending the rejections to all... — read more 

After Maria's exit, It is all ELT blame game and power hunger. Why the poor engineers and lower grades have to be the victim of this war ? Because of mgmt. politics, If they unable to protect these non-mgmt employees then these employees should... — read more 

What if mpls core team members stayed and not CR as CEO..I think we would be doing so much better than under CR

And then the whole mess that leaves behind. It’s so tiresome.

Bonus, salary increase, RSU refresh are usually notified in early Sept, have all those numbers been determined already now?

That's how we get growth from the constant layoffs and also laying off the wrong folks

Can someone post count? Any hiring freeze? There is a flood of internal folks soon coming off LR looking for another job. Cisco recruiters will be very busy matching internal jobs to folks affected. It’s a rat race to survival.

Quite a few internal and external sources have confirmed that Chuckie is out on Wednesday, falling on the sword. We might get lucky and have Fran go along, however only Chuck is confirmed at this point. After Gary gets a feel for the business and... — read more 

I can't pretend that I care anymore. The cycle is "do an LR, refocus the team's goals, meet or exceed those goals, get hit with another LR, try to figure out how to do more with less, refocus the team's goals, meet or exceed those goals, get hit... — read more 

Just wondering if anyone has heard how Splunk or AppD folks might be impacted with the upcoming RIF......there is a ton of overlap between the organizations and no one knows how the two orgs are supposed to fit together. I've seen talk of Meraki... — read more 

Does anyone have any insight as to how Meraki will be impacted? I know they were hit pretty hard in the last round.

I am tired of worrying every time there is an LR, what is the safest job around?

Do we know how many people will be impacted? I hope it won't be like this August

Every time the LR topic comes back around everyone in collab says we participated so heavily in the last round, there's no way it could happen this time. And then it's massive. Of course if you look at performance, what really should be the... — read more 

Why are we focusing on AI when everybody and their mother are realizing that AI is not as easy to monetize as originally thought? We'll lose so many great people for something that might not pan out in the end.