as a sales vet I love to be in front of customers. After the pandemic, I was out for 3-4 days a week again but what Jeff is asking us to do, is 2 more days training, new tools and processes with the result I hardly can go out meeting customers as... — read more 

Trying to invest my savings into NASDAQ: CSCO and hoping for a good return within a year... Thoughts?

Any idea how much is difference

I'm almost hoping to be laid off while severance is still somewhat decent. I've been hearing horror stories from friends who work at other companies where people with 10+ years would get four weeks and that's it. What are the chances something like... — read more 

Hi, My friend who works in a hedge fund told me that there is rumor in the market that some of the Cisco exec are in conversations with a potential buyer. I have a good chunk of Cisco in my portfolio after last week dip I was planning to dump it... — read more 

HR said: We have not found any evidence. We are satisfied that the investigation was conducted in an appropriate manner. You were not in a position to identify any witnesses to this allegation, nor did you provide the names of any colleagues you... — read more 

Because there is no one left in the company that can create strong, sustained growth, management can only squeeze out profits for Wall Street by cutting costs. The unfortunate reality is that continuous cost-cutting only exacerbates Cisco's... — read more 

Commercial consolidation and LRs are coming. The Commercial performance in Q1 was an all time worse. Too many old school AVPs, ODs, and RMs that are unwilling to change. Some of them are going to be managed out of the business. Each area is going... — read more 

Folks, I'm in a toxic team that is getting re-orged and I've been asked to look for new roles. My mental health is affected and I'm considering going on disability leave. Will I still be able to recruit for internal roles while on disability leave?... — read more 

Are these teams safe from layoffs? Is the work important? How is the culture in Bay Area?

Splunk Inc. and its directors allegedly misrepresented key details about a proposed acquisition of the company by Cisco Systems Inc. in a proxy filing, according to a shareholder lawsuit filed Friday. The software company and its board issued the... — read more 

To Cisco managers, You don't empower people with proper communication and action. But you still want people to be motivated. You are mediocre, but you want people to be excellent? Employees, be rod-valiant with these kinds of people and colleagues. — read more 

What changes upon 5 years at Cisco? Increased PTO or just increased ability to bank PTO? Anything else?

... wiping out 1 year of gains in a day. CSCO is such a stupid stock, doesn't even keep up with S&P growth. I'm holding about 3k stocks and feeling the pain of today's 12% drop 😓

It’s rare that I actually visit this site and read posts and comments; however the negative ranting and complaining is nothing but worthless bllsht. If you don’t like this company, leave and move on. For those of us that care about this company -... — read more 

Is anyone watching this? It seems so disconnected from the pressure of the work we have to do. In the few minutes I've had it playing in the background while working on numerous Powerpoints, prep for performance reviews, juggling meetings to be able... — read more 

anyone understands what most TAC are speaking?

IPF x company performance (0) = 0. Its going to be a lot of unhappy people Time to fire CR.

Street surprised about our bad outlook because the rest of tech is recovering. Maybe the problem is us, not the market?!

Orders down 17% and terrible guidance-BIG LAYOFFS

Thank you, Cisco, for having layoffs so close to Thanksgiving. That's really kind and considerate of your employees' feelings. Truly. I think we should all be grateful for having such compassionate leadership, right? After all, who wouldn't want to... — read more 

Talent assessment 2 x year and employee will be able to see talent assessment results in workday. Employee has to acknowledge talent assessment results with manager. You own your career so it’s NOT your managers responsibility to promote you, it’s... — read more 

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AppD folks will be removed next year. Splunk guys will take over.

Trust me, Chuck Robbins’s favorite trick is to take something irrelevant out of context and repeat it over and over again until it is cited as established fact. This leads to an establishment of lies—lies that soon appear in everyday conversation as... — read more 

Bonus calculations for ELT use a CPF of 1.8 per proxy statement Rest of company - CPF of 1.29 SH, MM, JS, DS: IPFs 1.6, except CR's 2.6

Region consolidations are coming. A few regions will be parted out and absorbed into other regions. Those RMs and SEMs will be impacted. US Commercial hired new AMs and SAs at lower pay in order to layoff higher paid AMs and SAs.

This, my friends, is what's making Cisco rot from the inside. The technical debt is simply too humongous. Just the number of operating systems to maintain is testimony to how clueless the various CTOs have been: IOS-XE, IOS-XR, NXOS, ACI, Ubuntu... — read more 

Cisco has too many layers of fat. As a technical company, daily tasks are run by glorified secretaries AKA the project managers, copy and paste your work and package in an email and blast it out to different groups including upper management. ... — read more 

Need to know if I can buy that 100 inch tv?

There is this survey today, then another survey on the next day, and another survey next week. Cisco is such an unethical, toxic, political, outdated company with full of incompetent, clueless, just long-tenured managers and directors who are just... — read more 

It was very humbling today when I had a startup reach out for a 2 YOE role and the recruiter quoted me a base pay range that was double my total comp at Cisco (no kidding). For any sane person and under G10 you are likely missing out big time on... — read more 

Anyone know whats going on? Everyone is being moved to Bld 6

Last layoff for Dec 2022 and July 2023 were announced on Nov 16 2022. Let's see what Nov 2023 has in store for us.

There are more SE layoffs across direct and architectures coming as part of the Q1 Earnings Announcement and Restructuring. They are going to be mandating C2E due to this which means no pay and career advancement.

"Cisco has nothing left except WebEx. DC business lost to Arista and cloud. Security is PAN for business, Fortinet in public sector. Traditional telephony is RingCentral. One more generation of LAN engineers to go and Cosco will lose the LAN/Wan... — read more