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what a dumb post. Posting your grade level, years of service, your Cisco Office location, your profile is quite soon getting public. Most Cisco guys know you in person. deadwood ! just posing with the $$$ package size. Stupid ! Your achievement ? No, this has been negotiated by the working council at Cisco. You can thank the german law for this. And finally communicating 30 % less salary at your new employer. Great achievement !? proud of that ?
As a 20 years and grade 12 Cisco veteran in Germany I decided to took the maximum package (410K Euro gross see: https://cisco.jiveon.com/docs/DOC-1609744) and walked out of the office in Munich with a big smile. First thing what I did was paying my mortgage 100% and looked around in my network for a new job. After two weeks I got job offer at a smaller company at 30% less salary and less politics. But who cares, no mortgage, kids are already out of the house, no debt etc. THANKS CISCO!!!
To do the minimum.
to leave Cisco. Have 3 interviews during the mandatory pto next week
The PP about Arista getting a large percentage of their business from the four cloud titans is a valid point. With the Jericho chip they are attempting to move into the service provider/large enterprise routing space. Who knows. Life is always a gamble. I suppose I just have empathy for the poor people slaving away in the Cisco TAC. Those people deserve combat pay.
Write a blog or do a stupid podcast that only your fanboys/girls in marketing look at.
But Arista has only four large customers. And those four are making their own future gear with their own code.
Go to work for Arista. They need TAC engineers. Routing and Switching, Data Center especially. Heard they don't have CAP managers or duty managers because they don't need them. The products work and when they don't, Development fixes them within days if not hours.
Be sure to put Technical Solutions Engineer in your resume I am told.
I have friends who work there. Tell me that they have 60 TAC engineers worldwide and get about 60 cases a day including RMA's and web access requests. You do the math.
I spent several years in the Cisco TAC. Never seen such a sweatshop, harsh, disrespectful environment in my life. You can't live your whole life in the TAC and what are you going to do when you get out? Go to work for some group and face yearly layoffs? FTS
get some certs, paid for by Cisco that you can use in your next job
quit, here's two good reasons:
"The second most common reason people quit their job was poor leadership (41%)."
"Coming in about even at third and fourth in the recent survey, were quitters wanting better work culture and wanting more challenging work (36% for both)"
source: http://time.com/money/4056693/why-people-quit/
ask for a raise.
With so many layoffs and people leaving, you have leverage.
Seconding 'sell your stock.'
@baf: Nope. I commented and I'm not OP or troll.
The OP just is replying to his same post, trying to stir the pot. Troll
...ask yourself why I haven't left yet
wonder where the old Cisco went
sell your stock
What @KEoccY1-bfp said.
leave
wonder what the ELT is really thinking that they won't tell us
GTFO