I presume if you get laid off it will be the best thing that happened to you (if you are an engineer). I from one, will leave Cisco if I am not laid off... Cisco is not a family and the top leaders are not held accountable for their stupid mistakes. Any person with a little something between the ears will note that developing software products with few hundred engineers that the market is closing fast or closed, does not have the ROI. But they still continue to do so and leave Cisco just before the crash to pursue new carriers and the engineers are paying the price.
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lost the set top box because Neanderthals in atlanta didn't believe anyone would watch TV OTT, lost NDS because it was built on dung, lost small cell, lost cms, lost analytics, lost minds, lost bowels, list goes on.
lost the cloud, the Umi, the flipcam... is the King Midas of crap. What can you expect from a company with email and social marketing campaign vision based on whitepapers and 101% time spent on WebEx to talk about diversity and themselves as if they are celebrities...
Cisco didn't lose the cloud because Cisco NEVER had a cloud or anything remotely resembles a cloud or a decent strategy to get one
It might be the best thing to happen if you're assured of getting a job somewhere else but if you are of age 50+, it's slim pickings.
Cisco is a clould. We live in it and are flying blind with no instruments. Nobody can see up or down.