Cisco is in trouble with the r&s products. They are desperately trying to steal in this area.
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@g2
Agree. They totally go after anyone who is sincere and loyal. Probably some insecurity there - see them as a threat to career. I do know who this guy is who got pushed out. He was working for projects outside of his scope and domain for nothing - dedicated to the end. This is not the only instance that I have seen this happen. Don’t work too hard at Cisco - either you’ll get LRed, or PIPed or pushed out.
You counting every Nexus switchport as AI :)
$1.35bn so far this fiscal year in AI revenue. Doesn’t seem like complete BS to me 🤷♂️
Hired an ex-Google idi0t in LA during lockdowns who was literally on dr-gs . Fired him in 2023.
A quick trip through the Google machine itself shows the average tenure at Google being not much more than a year, and one would assume that is for an "average" candidate with the CV and ability to pass an interview that tests skills unneeded for the code they can't actually design or write correctly once hired. It makes you wonder how people stay so long at Cisco.
Cisco needs to get rid of the “promote yes-people” culture.
This is human nature and how most companies end up working. The opposite of that were the assortment of teams inside Apple trying to replace the original MacOS with a range of broken alternatives (sound familiar?) because people just ignored executive management and it took buying NeXT for one unified focus, but I doubt without Steve Jobs' leadership it would have succeeded. They were able to leverage their media creation heritage and NeXTSTEP not just for their desktop and portable computers, but iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches, Apple TV and more, along with moving from media creation to media delivery.
Cisco, and by definition all the other network centric companies which also haven't branched out to whole new technologies and markets, don't have those adjacencies to grow their business. If the largest piece of your business is moving packets from one interface to another it's pretty much network management and security. AI and quantum are going to part of those solutions so Cisco better figure it out.
Cisco needs to get rid of the “promote yes-people” culture. That sees so many pretenders getting promoted. LC is toxic and caters to Telugu first ( her own genetic heritage), Indians next and everyone-else-last culture. I have worked with RK on numerous projects. He is an antiquated dinosaur . It’s unthinkable that he leads research, leave alone quantum and AI. He knows nothing about these areas and thinks networking is still CDP !
You have a bullsh-tter who is now the president - get used to it!
LRed last year this should not be a matter of me. But to see Cisco from network leader to BS leader is pretty sad. Please work for yourself first, I mean build up your job hunting skill. If they know you can find another job they respect you. If you work very hard actually no one care they can find any reason to push you on the LR board.
This says it all: https://www.thelayoff.com/post/@ar+1jtmvmz7e
Amusingly, Cisco's rare big investment in AI seems to be tanking...Cohere
iirc Cisco invested hundreds of millions and Cohere is circling the drain, irrelevant and unable to attract users
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-challenger-cohere-fell-85-short-early-revenue-forecast
very likely this investment will be marked down to zero
It seemed that the distributed network element was the future, until cisco couldn’t steal it.