Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

solid points on all. good call on crowdstrike. might be a good investment to make now....for acq down the road....get that premium and sell when they get bought out. I think Sentinel still on their own, but probably target.

Entire management layers right down to the Directorial level need to be cleansed of toxicity.

You have to replace most of both the managerial as well as technical staff if you want to overcome 40 years of technical debt.

I've asked many times with zero answers: how do you hire top tier replacements to fix 40 years of legacy code which will probably take a decade to do before doing new development, and how do they grow useful skills during that decade so they won't become as bad as the current staff?

Meanwhile, keep writing yourselves those minivans (it's a Dilbert reference.)

Cisco and Splunk-Two Peas in a Pod

The winner will be the company that buys CrowdStrike in the security space. Gary’s job was to just sell Splunk and he got it done.

Agreed on being worst acquistion of all time. Granted, if they paid them for what they were truly worth and not a 7x valuation, that's fine to me. 28 billion????!!!! And splunk, they waste tons of money. Usually I am for companies overpaying, but man, in the years I was there, literally people making 300k that had no intrinsic value and ALL they did was talk and talk and talk.....how they could dupe a customer out of more user ingest, more spl, more more more. my exec actually was like "oh, you're going there, they're a customer...maybe you can get us in their deeper...." she was quite honestly the most useless person ever. In my mind I was like I wouldn't introduce you to the interns. hahahaha. From what I hear, Splunk seems to go well with junk. Can we give the thumbs down still?

Yes, I agree. Splunk is a horrible acquisition , especially at the price that they paid. $28 billion for a company that at best is "legacy" is every possible meaning of the word. We need a new management. Entire management layers right down to the Directorial level need to be cleansed of toxicity.

As it happens, Cisco appears to prefer to lay off smarter people in the management and keep the bottom feeders. Openshift lost another few very smart people at Directorial level in the latest bout of layoffs. And guess what, the mafioso style SEDs are still around. Go figure!

This will go down as the biggest blunder in acquisition history at Cisco. And that's saying a lot as there have been many turkeys.