Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

But have you heard of a CSSm yet??

Best jobs to show up on calls and say nothing, but draw full salary as some BS Manager role.

@eg Yes, we have too many reporting levels and too many unqualified managers and directors. Their weekly meetings are just to see which menus Salesforce has changed today. It seems that the job of CSS is to fill in the countless forms they created. It's really ironic.

“ Why so many layers digging into Cisco profit?”

Let me tell you the quiet part aloud: we just created a bunch of layers to get the white numbers up.
The tech people were usually not white and we just couldn’t justify not having enough whites so we just hired a bunch of xyz managers.

Why so many "PM's" compared to competition. Looks incompetent

As a CSS - I fully expect the Customer Success arm of the organization to be cut in the next 1-2 years. CSS's are becoming non-technical engineering roles - focusing more on administrative functions (I'd estimate 90% of the role is now administrative) over actual customer facing engineering functions. I suspect many will be LR'ed and the ones that are actual engineers will be brought over to become NCEs.

So many CS and CD titles with zero work.

None of these people need to be employed. Just su-king Cisco & stock profit margins.

Our org is so bloated with fat. I do the work, and it get reported 3-4 levels above me, so they get the credit, but no one up the chain do any work. Add the master of C2E, the Knipp guy to this list. I thought that I escaped him by going to CX. Why does incompetency get promotions all the time?

There’s 10 people on a call at once so that the bottom rung person actually trying to solve the problem can be told how important it is and ask for updates they’ve been sent a dozen times, all while making $150k a year.

Cisco needs to be thin and agile, not fat and bloating.