What I learned, while being LR, is that a lot of IC were LR and no leadership were LR. How on EARTH this ELT does not see that there are too many “leaders” will continue to be the downfall of Cisco. There is ZERO reason for there to be 3 VPs reporting into one another. just a waste
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Most of the people I know impacted by today's LR were managers
Location? business unit?
I know of at least 5 VPs that were impacted. Likely many more. Forget the roles, we are all people at the end of the day.
Remember MM?
I know of high- performing senior managers and directors that were cut today. Sad.
I will NOT have ANY sympathy for any Managers/Directors (Sr or Jr)/VP's/Executive VP's that got cut today. Cisco is full of layers, as someone said why do you need 3-4 VP's reporting to a Sr. VP. Cisco can easily cut 50% Mangement staff and still be fine.
That's the problem with thelayoff.com, zero moderation with too many posts claiming their limited view of things represents what happened across the entire 80k+ person company.
Most of the people I know impacted by today's LR were managers. But I'm not going to claim that's how it went down everywhere because I don't and you don't either.
Was there any consolidation in the engineering orgs ? Maybe some leaders were impacted in other areas like AppD but that’s just because of lack of roadmap and splunk. In engineering org if you let go IC’s and retain 3 levels of directors, then who is going to develop features ?
I saw plenty of leadership get cut today.
That’s BS of course. I know one director and 2 senior managers LRd today
No, no confusion. We don’t do org charts any more. We just do cross-functional “collaboration”.
I haven’t seen a formal org chart in my organization for 15 years.
Reorganizations start, and they never finish, they just sort of “Peter out”.
I personally know directors and VPs that were part of the LR.
There's a lot of confusion where people will be reporting to after this.