It's amazing how many great employees Cisco has decided it doesn't need anymore. Some of the biggest slackers I know are still here. A good worker is easy to lose, but hard to replace. I wouldn't be surprised if they realize what a mistake they made only when it's too late.
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If they were good employees they’ll land on their feet in a better place and grow in ways they couldn’t at a legacy maintenance company.
Many of the comments in this and other threads are that those that remain are useless. How many of you commenting this way remain, and given layoffs have been going on long enough at Cisco that they can legally drink in the US how long will it be before you all figure out what this means? It’s like watching Bart Simpson repeatedly hitting his head and saying “ow, quit it!” each time.
AppD was a big mistake. And the bloom is starting to come off the rose now on ThousandEyes also - apparently it is not the next iphone.
@arrj+1kvPBySD Cisco can’t sell AppD either.
It’s all about cost savings. Our team was (yes was) all grade 11 and higher. The whole team was “re-balanced” today. Cut the higher paid employees and scale through partners is the plan going forward. Too bad that they neglected to figure out that none of our partners can understand or sell AppD yet. Short term thinkers at the ELT especially Maria and Liz - but hey, they do check a few diversity boxes don’t they?
I know of a team that laid off it's hardest and committed workers and kept the one person who has told the boss many times that they are leaving the company as soon as they get another offer. The role has to be done so...????
Lol they let go our Csco tennis team captain! He led us to Silicon Valley championships the last 3 years over Google and Apple. What a way to ruin employees morale!! Now every college grad, upcoming Usta tennis players avoiding Csco like a plague.
I wouldn't be surprised if they realize what a mistake they made only when it's too late.
They won't realize it. It's been happening for over a decade and they have yet to realize that letting good people go and having to bring them back or deal with issues until their replacement(s) can figure things out.
I got LR'd back in 2011, then returned as a contractor in 2013. I was there maybe 6-months when someone in IT contacted me about replacing some server I used to be the business POC for back when I was on my original team. I had to tell IT who the manager was and get them talking so they could make the decision to replace or decommission that server. When it was decided to replace it, I got called in the middle of the night Fri night/Sat morning and asked to join a bridge call to help them figure out why some tools/processes no longer worked w/ the new server. I laughed and said, "Sorry, I'm a contractor, not on that team, I don't have access to the server to troubleshoot, and since I'm a contractor, I can't work over 40 hrs a week and I've already worked my 40 hrs this week. It's been 2 yrs since I managed that server so I don't know what changes happened after I was LR'd. So sorry I can't help you."
I managed to get right back to sleep and slept like a baby! Sorry old team, not my problem. Still not my problem after my new team has made me an employee and I now have 10+ yrs with Cisco.
CX here. I made it past this round. Next up- Sales…..after quarter end of course ;-)
Slackers don't expect stock. It's also easier to control a slacker without the ability to leave easily.
The less the employees are paid the more that is left for Chuck and his useless ELT
Good people know way too much. That's not good for Cisco. Cisco likes lazy b-u-m-s who sit on their b-u-t-t all day doing nothing.
Good people cost more money. Poor and young people are typically cheaper to keep. Done.
That's how darts work. Sometimes it misses it misses its target, kind of like Cisco keeps doing.
High Salary = LR
You can be a good employee yet not fit a role or the culture in general. I have had success at other companies, yet got laid off from Cisco, even though I was given an exceeds expectations in my last review. I don’t think this is about individual performance. Not sure why they select who is on the list, but I don’t think it’s any indication of if those laid off were good or bad employees.