I absolutely agree with someone who said the re-orgs that were announced at the very top will bring a lot of downhill changes. I wonder what the scale of these changes will be and how quickly they will follow after the re-orgs at the top?
It’s been getting worse and worse here for a long time. When I think the worst is over, here come more surprises.
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Recruiters know how to look through the BS. Once you ask questions about their online profiles and probe for answers, they get defensive or deflective.
Most recruiters are id–ts. They only know how to search for keywords. They have no understanding of what technical people do and can't evaluate our credentials.
Most recruiters think everyone who works at Cisco is a network engineer. I'm not a project manager, but they contact me, they contact project managers I know, they contact other non-technical people I work with FOR certified network engineer positions. If you look at my LinkedIn profile, or you look at the profiles of the PM's I know, there's NOTHING in our profile that suggests that we are CNE's other than the fact that some keyword search popped up our name because we work for Cisco.
I'm prior military. I had a security clearance while in service and during two different jobs afterwards. When I left those roles, I clearly updated my resume(s) online or later, my LinkedIn profile, to indicate that my clearances were Inactive. I would get recruiters who would contact me about roles that required a current, active clearance. For those roles that I was qualified for, and not for something completely unrelated to my skillset, when I asked the recruiter if the employer might consider candidates with prior clearances, I was told no, that it had to be active. They were the ones who got defensive or deflective when I asked them "Then, why the heck did you contact me about this position? Can you not read 'Previously held a security clearance from 199x to 199x and 200x to 201x.'?"
I clearly tell my recruiters what I'm skilled at and what I'm not. I don't really want them submitting me to roles where I can't perform well and then the client ends up firing me later and giving me a bad reputation as a guy who can't deliver. I've had two roles where I WAS the guy hired after someone was fired for overstating their skillset. Believe me, I was under a microscope after the previous id–t was terminated, so I do not exaggerate my skills. I've had interviews were I've basically talked my way out of getting an offer because a skill I was weak in was the one they needed more than the skills I did have. On the flip side, I landed my current role at Cisco because I knew most of what they needed, and I knew people at Cisco on teams that were responsible for the functions I didn't know in depth, but I could get assistance from, until I could come fully up to speed on these topics.
My experience with Cisco was from the outside. I would never work there and even turned down an offer. They wanted me to leave my company and I laughed. I told my manager about it and the phased me out of engaging with them. Don't get me wrong, there are some great hard working people. However, the others though that in my opinion are the majority do nothing. I even looked at a few of their profiles on LinkedIn and question what they even have there. Not once did I see these people do anything they claim. Recruiters know how to look through the BS. Once you ask questions about their online profiles and probe for answers, they get defensive or deflective.
Ideally Cisco can eliminate 50% of work force from DnA, Supply chain, commerce and CX
Especially mangers and directors have no work. Mangers/Directors are instrumental in pushing their kids as interns from freshman violating the policy and total nepotism. A manger went to extent that he brought his neighbor friend as consultant converted to FTE and then promoted within 2 years.
Such filth has increased and management does only politics no work
Hats up to new leadership's take on eliminating the scum and cleansing but it should be more aggressive. Outsourcing to vendors complete IT is a good idea on cutting cost
You do know we are adding more job roles and more managers and directors and so on
Operations, Data & Analytics, Supply Chain, and IT could eliminate 50% of employees and not miss a beat. Bloated orgs filled with politicians.
I disagree. Most of the employees in IT are overworked. If you meant to say that 50% of the managers & above could be eliminated without missing a beat, then I agree. The leadership is very political, but the majority of the individual contributors just want to do a day's job for a day's pay.
Operations, Data & Analytics, Supply Chain, and IT could eliminate 50% of employees and not miss a beat. Bloated orgs filled with politicians.