Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

@3emu+1kzVNFfY they tried to fire VW but he has dirt on someone so was put in a “strategy” role with no reports where he can keep getting a paycheck but not continue to mess things up.

Curios Ex-Cisco guy here.. What happened to VW in the Security Sales business? He seemingly has the same title as SS on LinkedIn.

@2yfn+1kzVNFfY you’re right. It’d take a whole sale ground up rewrite. But the revenue potential is tiny anyway. The real purpose of the security portfolio is so we can tell investors we are in the security market.

Might be better to sell off security business, as Cisco will never catch-up to industry leaders

Everyone knows that our security products are in bad condition. SBG leaders haven't invested in developing next gen products at all for last few years. Just fixing bugs and adding few features on a legacy architecture hardware. This is not a secret anymore. customers and stockholders know this very well. We don't need to hire an execute for this. We need someone visionary who can build next gen products and not to fix bugs. Most of the executives are surviving with legacy knowledge, which may help to release next version of firewall, similar to 31xx but not next gen. we need someone who can turn candles to electric bulb...(not someone who can make different type of candles)

@2sgj+1kzVNFfY I mean, he wasn’t wrong. We need someone that realizes our security profile is a pile and needs a total makeover.

What a joke, this guy left Cisco years ago. Was recently leading the VMware Network and Security business globally. He $h!* all over Cisco and said how it was the past. NSX, Carbon Black, NDR, etc. are the future and Cisco was garbage. Cisco didn't have the right story. Now he's going to lead that business? He has sat with every one of VMware's largest customers telling them Cisco is $h!* for the last 6 years!

SS is second only to MM as the least motivating, dullest speaker in the exec suite. I keep expecting her to get comfortable in her role, but hasn't happened. Snooze fest.

That's incredible. Gillis is very clueless. He let Palo Alto happen right under his nose and did zilch about it. He likely got laid off from VMware. The guy is so out of his league.

Unbelievable, bringing back same exec pen pusher who mismanaged Csco ASA years ago, ki---d Csco ACI with his VMW stint.. bringing back in to ki-l more products and employee morale. His salary can keep at least 10 engrs doing real work, innovations frm monthly LRs

JP is responsible for the demise of Webex and made a huge mistake in hiring SS. He realizes that now and that is why TG has been hired and they made up a new executive role for SS. She was a disaster at McAfee and no one here at Cisco wants to put her in front of a customer.

"Outside of a small fraction of people in design, everyone at HQ is easily replaceable, up to and including the entire C-suite."

Someone gets it. Outsource jobs to countries without labor laws, and replace full-time employees in America with contractors.

Cisco is looking for leaders good at quietly cutting labor costs in America.

rehired same exec who ran Csco firewall products aground 10+ years ago that ASA never recovered, got embarrassed by Palo Alto, Imperva, Fortinet. So sad to once proud company.

Cisco has a security business?

The offshoring is why software quality and feature innovation has gone to cr-p.

Cisco employeed 39k in the US and 44k in the rest of the world last year. Except for people directly involved in sales, implementation, and onsite, Cisco could entirely discard its onshore engineering and still manage going forward. It's built up a huge presence in every competency all over the Americas and the rest of the world. Manufacturing? How much of it says made in the USA? Outside of a small fraction of people in design, everyone at HQ is easily replaceable, up to and including the entire C-suite.