Once, there was big MITG and CCBU sitting there. Now, most of them are downsized to a diminished level and I hear only Indians around there. Any news if this is going to be closed as it is way expensive than most other US centers and majority of work is given to product managers in India. There are VP level people here who are on verge of retirement and are cut in size now.
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MITG is doing all jargans to be in relevance by putting their cr@ppy with kubernetes and highlighting 5G. But one thing they have forgotten is that they are led by a sales guy who just checks $$$ comings. If he has to choose between MITG and burger shop, where burger shop earns more, then he will replace MITG with burger shop.
MITG is another white elephant which is a burden on the company. The leaders show case numerous use cases which customers will never use and can be offered by anyother vendor at quarter the cost. The MITG original head retired sometime back and now some other marketing person is leading it giving gimmicks
I was there at BXB last week and found wolves howling there for dead. Vultures have also returned. Not a good place to be.
CCBU has started deleting people from UX also. Only the rats of Avaya are remaining.
@SkCnJJF-khvz - Care to explain what that means? Looks like multiple alarms being raised https://www.thelayoff.com/t/SC5U4sf . There's no smoke without fire.
CCBU is RIP for some time now .
MITG is not a priority with Cisco anymore.
You can find all kind of snakes in this Box----- sleeping
CCBU is the highly political and useless organization. Over the period of time, its leaders have earned a lot from Kickbacks by outsourcing to Wipro. If the company has any wise executive, he will first close and move CCBU out of Cisco. Their projection numbers are highly speculated and leadership is a collection of failures of Avaya.
Constant LR are the example of leadership failure of CCBU and MITG . The VP and directors along with PE and DE should be shunted out.
Irony is these are the only people who have taken 15% annual increment by taking salaries of the engineers by laying them off.
This shows the bankruptcy of ideas within the so called leaders
dqyu: Its simple $$$$$$$ cheaper by the dozen in India
Recently I spoke with a Product Manager Designate in India of CCBU and he cannot understand any simple terms of CVP. He is given the position, just being close to Indian bosses. Being in TAC, it is difficult to solve common problem as the Product Manager is completely dumb. Do not know, why they have removed all good Prod Managers here and hired some leftover guy.
Already it looks like Ghost place. Better sell the building and gives salary to newly hired executives.
Well, what customers want can be provided by Arista.
There is not much left of the Boxborough site anymore. A few years ago it was bustling with activity but now it is a ghost town after the regular head count reductions that seem to happen mostly in March and September.
On a typical day you might see 10 or 15 people in an office space which has about 200 seats. A couple years ago they were mostly filled every day. There was a clear focus on providing the customers with what they wanted.
Cisco keeps hiring more and more inexperienced people [cheap labor] in Bangalore and laying off people in the U.S. who produced products that brought in loads of money. The quality is suffering as a consequence.
It used to be a great place to work, but after recent reorganizations there is no sense of direction anymore. Rather than everyone knowing where we were heading and working together, it has rapidly deteriorated into total chaos. If there is a vision, somewhere, we don't know what it is. We are often working against each other because it is not clear where we should be heading.
I don't see how the toxic environment can possibly get better. Most of the people with the vision, talent, and experience are gone. Now the show is being run by people, obsessed by the latest buzzwords, rather than providing the customers with what they want.
CCBU's on-prem products are going in maintenance mode. No new development, only security changes. MITG is already downsized and have money till July 2018. Hence in Boxborough only VP and Directors will remain.
CCBU's most A-Team sales department was shooed out. Last year they hired a few new guys, but it is worthless. Genesys is taking most business. Next year Amazon will be launching a competitor product which will beat the existing on-prem product. Already, the cloud contact center product of Cisco has been closed and hoping that one of Broadsoft acquisition will work. Cisco cannot compete cloud.
I worked for Cisco for past 5+ years at BXB in CCBU. Despite doing all hard work and working for most revenue fetching product, still one day I was called and asked to leave. There are people in Wipro who have joined in bulk in Cisco (without any interviews) as Architects and are doing the work at cheap. When I asked about quality, there was no response.
CCBU is located there and is run by a complete jackass who drove his previous company into the ground.
It is time to buy readymade T-shirt again and sell it by putting a new sticker.
BXB is very old junkyard with arrogance of previous century. Time to invest in something new in Sillicon Vally.
The yearly expenditure for buying stickies and pencils for Fibonacci series organization is $500K in MITG. In this they can have 3-4 good techies here in BXB.
The Fibonacci series organization must be booted out
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Verizon is spending less. They are deploying white boxes instead of buying expensive h/w from cisco.
Irving, TX location closing in June. Not enough traffic. People pushed back to Richardson.
Leave the Fibonacci Series to Fibonacci !
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Love, Fibonacci 💋
i was there in the glory days of bxb when 3 bldgs came up and land for many more purchased down that lovely drive ending in the football field. mitt romney and another congressman came to give the inaugural speech :) we were in the old bldg across the I-495 overpass and sometimes drove over to enjoy the swank canteen and take a walk.
but realistically csco has always been a SJC centric co - the best projects, the most coveted work, the fastest growth has always been @ SJC and other sites even large ones like rtp, bxb, ottawa, blr were fighting for the leftovers even then.
Let's make Cisco Great Again
Managers, Directors and VPs of Cisco are very lucky.
There is a big center coming up in Cisco Bangalore where all the Boxborough will be dumped.
This will happen if they teach customers Fibonacci series (1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,....) stories and Epics . Customers are no kids to get satisfied by these tales.
Boxborough & Lawrenceville: https://i.imgflip.com/174xue.jpg
No shut-up and get that TPS report going!