Do you lay low and do the bare minimum like everyone else or do you be "that guy" and always have something to say in every meeting to show high visibility? I have seen folks who did either one of these but still got laid off eventually. So which... — read more 

They've done it again, number 1 spot in the UK best large company to work for. Incredible! How do they do it? https://www.greatplacetowork.co.uk/best-workplaces/2024 I remember working at Cisco and having a sychophantic exec leave a voice message... — read more 

Perfectly summarized by @hqak+1rJFXhal . Bumping it up for attenhtion. "Im on the latest LR myself, and I've had years of the hunger games, watching often talented people get chopped has been truly depressing, but its part of Silicon... — read more 

Management too much politics with too much favoritism. Directors to busy stocks trading

Come back as red badge? Would you do it? I took severance a while back. TaTa for now.

Two gender discrimination cases were filed with HR against an employee and the manager, who were protected by the senior leadership team. Tell me again why we have to take this BS training. Cisco HR isn't there to protect the employees. Don't waste... — read more 

Whoever tries to optimize the CX and PX will be axed. ELT wants to run them as separate kingdoms knowing the ROI. Lots of VP quit knowing this mess and redundancy. CX and PX Engineering has to be merged with IT. Why do they need a engineering team... — read more 

WTF! How white people can talk to their kids about racism! Because only whites are racist…..

This LRs and uncertainty because of splunk massive deal., looks like big changes coming soon

https://stocks.apple.com/AhqmZMEmhTwCfIh6iP-gzMQ

We know most management everywhere is incompetent at best, but creating a new top level post about it almost every day shows you can't grasp the failure created by everyone else. The bugs that have been eating your development budget alive weren't... — read more 

I wish instead of hiring productive, dedicated, loyal ICs, the ELT would have the minimum sense of cutting the 4-5 layers of unnecessary management fat. That would save money, RSUs and make the company way leaner and efficient. Going by the quality... — read more 

Heard HPEM Aruba, Cray and few divisions pay exceptionally well.

Heads up! New layoff coming! I am part of the management team meetings here in San Jose and we just finished the new layoff plan. It will be similar to the one happened in February. Get ready!

So they finally require SEs to have at least CCNP certification, and a bunch of babies are crying about it. If you can’t pass CCNP, you probably shouldn’t be working for Cisco. Grow up!

https://fortune.com/ranking/best-companies/ Damn, I wish I work for Hilton.

How tough is outside market

CX and PX need to fire product managers and engineering directors, who do not have experience neither technical nor functional. Full of junk and d-mb engineering directors cutting big Cisco's paycheck. They nod the head and take orders from top... — read more 

We're not even done laying people off and yet we're hiring. Great business strategy. A+

Be prepared for two months nightmares

Do RSUs continue vesting while on extended LOA?

Keep going, simplify success, it will reduce overhead, too many console jockeys. Streamline organization, too many VPs reporting to VP, reporting to VP, reporting to VP.

Whether it will do good or not? Can cisco buy Rubrik in future?

Over the last 2 years I have seen an increase in "requests" to work early, after hours, and weekends. There's an expectation to reply to emails on PTO, sick days, and carry laptop on vacations if something urgent comes up. And these aren't long... — read more 

The levels of ignorance are astounding.

Especially since the last round of layoffs. We lost a few people on our team and the workload has remained the same. It's too much.

Cisco always ask for honest unbiased feedback. This forum is doing just that. Deep insights from trenches and people that should matter. Is Cisco listening or watching? Comment if you know this forum & opinions matter to Cisco, and changes ahead. ... — read more 

Long live Cisco. Amen. And if your last day is April 15, good luck and god bless. I’m with you, literally and figuratively.

This is very relevant for anyone working at a publicly traded company on corporate strategy frameworks. Organizations and Conferences Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite... — read more 

Ki-l AOV and align CX to drive actual revenue growth or ARR. ARR growth will automatically drive adoption. This includes all revenue streams i.e., S/W, TS and AS. We have created 2000 plus people SUCCESS organization supporting a fake... — read more 

Logically, this means management and executives should destroy it

This company has so much middle management bloat. If there’s more than 1 layer between direction setters (ie SVPs) and line managers, you have bloat and increased confusion. Decisions take longer. Decisions are less coherent. You’re adding... — read more 

I saw this in another forum: April 15th is the next round of layoffs. This is also the last day for folks impacted on Feb 15th. Also read where part of the Splunk acquisition outlines Cisco cannot layoff Splunk employees for 36 mos. Anyone else... — read more 

I watched the mandatory Splunk training.

Seems like common so are we really cleaning house if rumours can be believed

The Boeing CEO is out. Time for Chuckles to depart. He wrecked the company's culture much like what happened at Boeing. Nothing but presenting good figures for the quarter matches. This needs to stop.

If I decide to leave Cisco, and give them a last date, do all the RSUs that vest until then still remain mine or are they taken away ? Also, is there a chance of any accelerated vesting for RSUs that would vest in a few months after ? I suppose not... — read more 

Dear friends in the UK I understand it is likely you were notified today my thoughts and prayers Please remember this is not on you as an individual, you sadly are the victim of ineptitude in SF

The gross part is that many managers think they are the key to the business, when the actual heavy lifting is done by the ICs. Their "challenging management job to make difficult decisions" requires no skill, and can be done by just anyone. When... — read more