All TSAs are becoming part of GVE.
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@1mdr+1770lImD It appears that it is actually you who is not very intelligent. Read that post again from the poster @1atb+1770lImD. He/she has said exactly what you have said regarding technology focus. His point is because the TSA's are comped on their specific technologies, they don't care about the larger Cisco ecosystem thereby hurting business. And I for one, agree with that after being in this company for 18+ years. No other company has this model. As for your comment about him getting LR-ed, well, I think if that is the attitude of TSA's towards their colleagues, then they should get what is coming to them. The lack of depth and sensitivity in your comments, along with your inability to string together a single correct sentence in English, help to validate the post you are critical about. If the merger with GVE's mean TSA's will leave, well the door is always open, that is if after being TSA's at Cisco they can find another job elsewhere. The Cisco gravy train, after all is said and done, is a formidable one for middle-worth niche-technology focused folks..
what about PSS ??... without TSA, the PSS also hard to survive... hmmm
Like one bright spark exec we had in SP that wanted all TME’s to “cross train” on every box and all technologies so that we could “back each other up”. His main goal was to reduce headcount, which he could do if a TME could be rostered on any call, no matter what. It never occurred to him that this would have made TMEs no different to SEs and no account team would ever bother to talk to us again. Thankfully, that goose got bulleted.
@1atb+1770lImD - You have no idea what TSA's are or their role. The entire point of TSAs is to be very deep on a specific technology. Not a generalist that is the SE job. TSA is the deep level on their specialization and is key part of deals. Without TSA you will have no sales. You are very not intelligent about TSA role for sure. Hope you are included in LR.
Merging TSA with GVE will be disaster and all good TSA will leave. Chuck robbin is very bad CEO should be fired too save the company.
It’s very hard being an account SE these days because Cisco pushes very hard directly and indirectly to make them sales weasels. Then they can’t stay deeply technical like their customers want. And the Cisco desired behavior makes customers stop trusting them.
To the grade question. GVE has TSSs today and now they will also have TSAs. It’s not that complicated.
Good. This is what they deserve. I am not a legacy Cisco worker like most of my colleagues. Only working here for the less than couple of years. have been around Silicon valley companies all my career. Cisco is the only company with a TSA concept that I know of. Nothing wrong with having people focused on specific technology areas, especially for a company as big as Cisco. However, when they tie the compensation of these TSA's up to a specific technology then that's all most of them focus on and nothing else.
I heard a Security TSA for ASA say he knows nothing about FTD to a customer and walk out of a room when even I knew the answer to the question. I have had Security TSA's say they do not know how SGT's are defined between DNA-C and ISE to a customer as they are only "Threat Intelligence". I have seen Viptela TSA's say they know nothing about MPLS because they are SD-WAN. These guys don't care about Cisco. They got in as part of an acquisition and may not necessarily have agreed to the integration - but cannot find a job elsewhere, does not like their current job, tied to a comp and simply needs either to take a hike from the company or shape up. Cisco built the internet, so how dare a Cisco employee state they don't know much about MPLS ? By default they should know, no matter what their comp says. How can a security TSA, introduce himself as a security SME and then say they know nothing about FTD because they are ASA specialists!? And all these guys, when we talk to them, are so full of themselves without the sense of customer first. I mean WTF?!
And then there are the so called "business architects". Most of them I encounter know nothing about technology, know nothing about service creation, implementation and support but they wish to do "innovation" and produce an intimidating amount of verbal diarrhea on a daily basis. All at the cost of Cisco time and money. All these guys either should be made to shape up, pass technology certs (this is a technology company!) to prove that they have some basics or else booted out. They just sit around drawing fancy diagrams on the latest weird 3rd party architectural tool. being totally unproductive. Cisco needs to kick these guys out. cut the fat and get lean. They have enough engineers, who even though cynical about Cisco's path, are actually damn good still and can easily do what these guys are doing. Most other Silicon Valley vendors do exactly that. They don't go around hiring these, ineffective, lazy fat selling vocal tonic as value.
TSA grade higher than GVE typically ... how they absorb ?.. hmmm
When will this be announced?
It’s all segments.
Hearing this is not for all TSAs just some segments.
Transportation Security Administration becoming Good Vibrations Engineering?
Account SAs get to stay for now on Select and up.