Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

The real issue is RTP. It just has to go. Once it is shutdown things get better.

Even from a product standpoint JD didn't consolidate EN+Meraki fast enough and paid the price for it. Looks like they are still two products with lots of overlap and different user experiences.

Without high level leadership (a given), Meraki merges on top and then LRs 95% of the EN people. If you are Catalyst and merge with Meraki, join the kool kids in SFO or you're toast and getting laid off in < 2 years. This isn't a projection, it's already been done in previous "merges".

Fear not, with Catalyst Centers compute requirements, we will sell many UCS boxes. It also comes loaded with AI which will automatically write code to fix all customer found bugs.

Why does EN have so many SVPs. What do these people really do?

Sci Atlanta (6B)
Tandberg (2.3B)
AppD (3B)
Flip(0.5B)
Andiamo (??)
Splunk (27B).......list is on and on on and on. There is no accountability on ELT. The only accountable are laid off employees or engineers...very unfortunate.....

Meraki is like old lady in industry nobody want for date anymore. No innovations. Just tired and angry.

Yeah as someone in the networking BU it’s pretty sad

We had so much time to plan this stuff out before the fiscal year and the leaders failed to do so

JP su-ked as a leader for Meraki and JK is just okay

Customers are going with Mist because they want a cloud AI option and not sh---y Catalyst Center. They would go Meraki but it just lacks some features needed upmarket due to poor investment by Cisco

I agree though not having quotas, territories and so on is a huge fail from leadership

You have too much infighting
EN vs Meraki
Over empowered SEs that think they are sales people
Not enough speaking to customers and hiding behind partners

I feel networking BU in huge trouble with this round of culling the fact that JD has been let go and G2 brought in huge culling will occur at biblical proportions , bay area jobs will be nuked and sent to cheaper countries this came right out of CFO horse mouth. All aboard folks brace for the mega impact.

The market has left the station… and there is a gigantic thumbs-down for this chaotic “direction”. Customers decided over the past few years (Catalyst Center was a primary reason) to come up with Plan B — and they’re going with that moving forward. It is not a kn--e switch, but if you’re connected with customers, you know this decline is well underway.

Catalyst Center will save networking. We need a Big Data, Kubernetes, AI, ML cluster. Put those servers next to the Tetration server rack.

Cisco has been milking the networking cash cow for decades. Networking products are now a commodity so the ELT can no longer use the profits from networking products to fund their boondoggles.

It would be fascinating to see how much money has been wasted on internal development and on acquisitions that delivered nothing to Cisco’s bottom line. It has to be at least $50B.

The sad thing is that no one has been fired from the ELT for failing to deliver. It’s always the individual contributors that pay for those mistakes.

If we are talking about the same JP.... He was the worst leader to happen to Meraki in it's history. His leadership was the beginning of the end for Meraki from a culture perspective.

"They are grooming JP to be the next CR." : I heard JP couldn't beat JK to get the Americas Networking VP role, CR's role is quite the climb :/

While the rest of the organization is going crazy cutting down, Networking has suddenly added two director roles under Jen: ASP and Majors, which weren't there previously. Any idea on what those leaders are supposed to do in the org?

They are grooming JP to be the next CR.

I am hoping that they do not axe from the Networking BU (besides the few redundant leaders). Any chop here would hit the revenue directly. If they rock the boat too much by moving people around, the up-market customers will be hard to appease, and deals in flight would be at risk.

I think the message is EN needs to start innovating and not simply milk products hoping for some acquisition to bail out the business. G2 is 100% correct here.