Hi folks - 2025 personnel changes will resemble 2024 but changes will be more about streamlining the workforce to align with the vision of being AI-centric. No big news with this, I believe almost everyone knows this. But what may be helpful is knowing the layoffs will hit higher levels of management who are basically taking up space. There’s an extraordinary large number of managers who serve no purpose beyond monitoring other managers. Many will be caught off guard but it will slowly transpire over the next 6 months and most changes will appear to be retirements or accepting offers from other companies. Also, to avoid additional severance package expense, red badges in all areas will be let go.
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@cw+1jjkbh4fq I don't know how that is true when they got rid of our Chief Diversity Officer and several minions in the last round of layoffs.
DEI hires cost less. It’s very simple.
A number of other CEOs at Davos, including Pinterest CEO Bill Ready, Vista Equity Partners CEO Robert Smith and Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, all vowed that their companies will remain committed to prioritizing diversity even as they navigate the new legal terrain under Trump.
We are all in agreement that Cisco is riddled with pointless managers and non-contributors, ...
I'm not. If the bottom 90% just surfed the investment mailing lists then the top 10% would be slowly creating great stuff, but instead you have a lot of people who have no business working in engineering creating massive amounts of damage and the useful are being wasted trying to fix damage to get back to zero rather than move anything forward. People checking in garbage quickly were often rewarded for it so the whole incentive system was to do a bad job.
While deadwood are a problem, they aren't the long pole in the tent.
Wishful thinking
We are all in agreement that Cisco is riddled with pointless managers and non-contributors, even in excess of overmanagement that is rotting out most American companies
But it will not be "fixed". I expect it to get much worse. Like most old, rotten, obsolete large organizations, success at Cisco is defined by how quickly an employee can elevate themselves above the need to make a real contribution.
But keep dreaming!