I’ve seen the decline firsthand. It’s obvious they don’t care about their employees, which becomes clearer every single day. They keep laying people off and outsourcing work, but the workload always stays the same. Everyone I work with is feeling burnt out and stressed, dealing with increased pressure. Sadly, what used to be a good company has turned into a brutal, hostile work environment.
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The culture is all about profit, putting a fake spin on all the decisions, and pretending to be a great place to work.
Welcome to capitalism! The poor in the US love it so much they're voting to remove child labor laws and to take on all the tax burden so my investments will grow unconstrained.
Leadership wants you to drink the Cisco Kool Aid and be part of the insanity so they can make their millions while the real workers struggle.
Yes, the struggle of having to get over $100K/yr straight out of school to write software so broken that the cost of correcting it far exceeds any contribution you might have made, making you worse than deadwood. It's a far greater struggle than making $7.25/hr with a kid you can't take to the doctor because you can't get the time off work and even if you could you don't have insurance or the money to pay for it.
Just as you claim the executives are entitled because you don't have what they have, realize you are entitled for having more than most in the US and far more than most in the rest of the world.
The culture is all about profit, putting a fake spin on all the decisions, and pretending to be a great place to work. The HR brainwashing is intense. Leadership wants you to drink the Cisco Kool Aid and be part of the insanity so they can make their millions while the real workers struggle. The irony, is it has been working for them as most of what leadership does is not illegal, but I say unethical. The older you are, the more stock options you have, or the more you speak up, the more likely you'll be ousted. The culture is sick!
And how many managers were surprised how many employees were feeling the pressure from waiting for our ELT’s goofing off for a month while they figured out who to layoff??
When the OP thinks he had an original thought, but there's 1000 just like it going back 25 years...
Just because you been here for a week, doesn’t mean you know everything.
Managers frequently threatening whole world wide teams of being fired over any piece of fluff floating around inside their skulls, asking people in other countries to move to India to save Cisco money, wage freezes, cancelled bonuses, dry promotions, rank-and-yank, ICs and managers having violent conniptions while screaming profanity, an assortment of lying and stealing, getting a dozen or more first priorities a day so the manager would have to check your activity status on instant messaging, branches being broken for months at a time as the dashboards measure check in rate, not ISO9000 compliance, and let us not forget all the layoffs starting with a 27% layoff in 2001 have defined Cisco's ethics and culture for decades.
The people I knew along the way who started feeling overwhelmed realized they didn't have skills that would easily take them to their next job. The worst thing you can do for yourself is to stay in that state. If you like Cisco, try to stay, but keep your skills and professional network in top shape and take an occasional interview because the choice to stay isn't entirely yours. If you don't like Cisco do the same but with far more interviews.
It is obvious that Frantic has assigned a group of useless HR employees to check this page and suppress any post against Cisco. Another evidence proving a toxic suppressive culture at Cisco.
Wholehearted question, why are you still here? Complacency? Very curious.
I could not agree more..and while it may be obvious to some and you say "stop complaining, that's why it's called work!". Before it was a pleasure to work for Cisco. I woke up every day excited to do my work and see my colleagues. Now I am just dreading it.
Something has changed. Cisco has turned into a toxic environment. breaks my heart. And this time the mood is the same globally across the company. Not sure there is a way to return from this .
Thank You, Captain Obvious. Visionary.
That's why it's called work
Toxic place, but still…
#1 Great place to work.
Taken a nose dive? But it been like this for many years…