I have offer for G11 from the teams and wondering if the products are doing good or not. Any inputs will be helpful. Cisco is known for layoffs but how are these teams? Are they growing or suffering layoffs too?
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Listen to @Xf2rC2d-1ygp. Unless the offer is very strong financially (and it probably isn't) - no reason to join. And if you decide to join, treat that as a short term gig. The story of August 2016 was epic failure... after slashing the BU, the dolts shortly realized they need some of the people to fulfill commitments.
Maybe ok as a learning venture
But given that shambolic history of cisco cloud bu in past and how they were demolished in 2016 , after a decade of trying to do some things in cloud.... dont plan on this being a long term job. I was there in cloud @ cisco and a lot of ppl upto g13 were cut and products closed
Csco has no idea how to make money off cloud
Pass on the offer based on random replies from annoymous sources in ac-ap website? Seems logical to no one ever...
Thanks people for replying. I was off the opinion that the container platform and cloudcenter are doing well and good learning. Apparently, I was wrong. Maybe I will pass on the offer.
have to agree with the post below as a former G12 who left a few months back.
the quality of line managers has become so poor its depressing to report to a couple of layers of dolts and have them decide you fate and rating. code quality and maintainability has gone to the dogs.
any good techie who wants to retain self respect and grow and learn new things would avoid this co.
if you love untarring huge logfiles and going over them all day , hunting for clues to the latest triage , with half knowledge, csco is the place to be .
Every product is full of defect and every senior grade spends long hours on escalation calls. Higher grade people are not growing because they are busy defending bugs with products.
On top of that worry of layoff every quarter. If the smarter ones are not leaving, they are handed the handshake deal. I am a G12 actively looking to get out as this is not a place for anyone.