The influx of new leaders brought in to drive transformation to a SW company have failed miserably. Think about the blunders of the past few years, especially the lack of a transformation plan. No clue how to safely move from old to new. Just a ton of investment in lame programs and incompetent VPs. This is why the layoffs have been a constant, someone has to pay for the mistakes.
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@spx+1nG1cRSr Ever heard of Nile? John Chamber’s current eye candy? Wait for the Nile flood. Legacy Cisco stuff is history unless they Nile out.
Best thing to do? Migrate to another vendor.
Customers have been threatening to do exactly that for at least 25 years and yet Cisco is the revenue king because in too many segments their competitors are still worse. As a customer I've tried to move but for my specific needs Cisco still has the best solutions so they're still getting my business. Now that networking is considered a legacy business it's not like competent companies will suddenly spring forth to rule the segment.
Cisco's "software" support model is pure swill.
What is even worse than working at Cisco is working with TAC on Cisco products on the outside. Good people, stuck in a quagmire they can't control to fix.
Best thing to do? Migrate to another vendor.
I think this is Cisco’s biggest weakness at the moment. It’s been stressing me out lately, but the strategy is not very well informed at my level. So we often just do whatever, and last min emergencies swoop in like clockwork.
I'm new to company and I've already seen so many red flags all around me, from restructuring to these recent layoffs. I already want off this ride. Before cisco, I worked in a company with zero layoffs for years. All these red flags are signs of bad decisions made by upper management. I should have followed my gut and ignored the good reputation it has in tech. Sometimes bigger isn't always better and unfortunately, may not find this out until you're in (and it's too late to turn back).
So far only frontline enployees have been paying for these mistakes, shamefully.