There’s is this weird culture around being a Cisco family but I hate everyone one of you. I guess it’s not a real family unless you dislike your family members right?
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It's a strange mix of amazing people who can be friends for life and a raft of back stabbers and ladder climbers who will steal credit for work and ideas, try and put down the innovative and quiet people. I will honestly say in my 20 odd years there I found some amazing people but many have been let down badly by cuts and factors which were nothing to do with their ability and skills.
Is is a family? Yes a very ugly and messed up one.
any company that claims you are part of a family is selling you snake oil
Wtf gave you that impression ?
Brown family.
More like A$$ kissing Bo Fa
Nah - more like a cult... The butt kissing in every all hands chat is clear evidence.
It's an south East Asian family
Manson Family
Cisco came up with this scheme to get you to work harder for less money. They are robbing you in broad daylight.
Cisco also found a way to sell gigabit interfaces for less than DS0s used to cost. It's called increasing efficiency and is part of capitalism.
Every time I hear that family sh-t, I work slower.
If you are an average engineer doing software at Cisco this actually improves Cisco's productivity.
Now if there’s a big raises that just hit my account, then okay I’ll work a little more.
For people who are actually valuable they know their worth and how to sell it to the next company for a better income and the chance to keep growing skills to repeat the process. You've clearly chosen to rot at Cisco where your value by your own admission is both poor and decreasing.
Cisco came up with this scheme to get you to work harder for less money. They are robbing you in broad daylight.
Every time I hear that family sh-t, I work slower. Now if there’s a big raises that just hit my account, then okay I’ll work a little more.
...CR may have continued that mantra but that feeling is long gone.
It's amazing what laying off 27% of the staff (48,000 to 35,000) and a 90% drop in the stock ($82 to about $8) followed by more layoffs, wage freezes, dry promotions, stack ranking, and forking out one extremely broken routing and switching operating system to at least four to bug fix rather than having free development dollars and skills to do actual new development will "unpredictably" affect morale.
Of course all this was cast in stone 20 years ago and the last whiny post about Cisco family was only 5 days ago, showing Cisco employees remain completely unaware, continue to focus on the wrong things and to repeat the same mistakes forever. For you RTP will always close on the 19th.
The Adams family ... maybe?
Long ago and far away, way back in the 90s before Cisco had any layoffs and was still a relatively small company, then CEO John Chambers, always used to say "thank you for being a part of the Cisco family." Back then, morale was high, the stock was splitting every six months and the company was growing exponentially. Everyone had a great attitude, hard-working ethics and we felt like a family. CR may have continued that mantra but that feeling is long gone.
Dude cmon this isnt 2nd grade kids soccer. It’s work, you do work they pay you. Thats the arrangement, no family nonsense, dont believe that for a second