Cisco is heading to the vision of reducing head count to 50k blue badges and not sure how many r d badges.
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20k blue and 10k red is reliable news. It will happen in phases.
Forget year end, June and July is now interview season at Cisco!
Always the same communication model: frighten with a big number, if Cisco announces half, employees will be relieved...
yjr - I agree, considering that "only" 5k were let go last August. But if the right 20k people were LR'd, Cisco will continue on just fine w/o them.
Sounds too YUGEEEE to be true.
Cisco has every right to keep its overall headcount under 50K. 50K is a good number and it will keep company afloat for another Decade. All companies are laying off people. India IT Companies are badly hit by Trump Protectionist policies. Now they are hiring big time in US and firing employees in India.
If you have survived the mini-culls throughout the year then you will know its approaching that time of the year again. Big cuts likely coming our way in the next while as the annual Cisco Hunger Games begin in earnest. As ever, people should be prepared, update your resume, update your LinkedIn profile, update your skills at the Cisco University to stay current, apply for a few jobs and do a few interviews. If you are lucky/unlucky enough to be picked this time around then at least you can hit the ground running. Lets the games begin!
so true @hbd
Let's be honest, 40 percent of the blue badges I work with are just a waste of space. It's like each team has 6-7 blue badges worth a damn, then 3-4 who have no clue what they are doing and have been getting by on political crap.
At least last year my team let go of the 2 blue badges who were obviously bottom 5 percent. Hopefully they lose the 3 who are worthless now, right now it takes more time to fix their mistakes then it does to do my own work.
Red badges, maybe 1 in 10 know what they are doing. If this company is ever going to succeed again, it needs a mass culling. So much dead weight on the payroll, we have just never had a CEO with the balls to do it. At least 50 percent of this company has to go in order to get back to what it once was.
I was LRed in Summer, 2016 and I got a job for one more month's torment. but I think it's good to leave cisco that you will find lots of briliant opportunities for you. very happy to hear 20k persons been impacted