Cisco is proud to be a diversity champion. They preach, "We, as a company, must do what is right for humanity." But Cisco sure looks the other way when it comes to market share and revenue. Such a two-faced company. Cisco bleeds equality and... — read more 

No human has ever contracted the bird flu from an animal before. Now this happen. Will the 😧 crazy times end. Nobody wants to go back to work and get Covid or bird 😷 flu from some infected co-workers. Stay home People and post it on their... — read more 

Remember when everyone here said UCS was going away? Today’s launch and announcement of 55,000 customers proved we are crushing it!!!!!!

I keep hearing this is happening but no one knows details. Do you?

Does Cisco blacklist people who were LR'd from coming back to the company? Do they blacklist external candidates that interviewed but did not get a job offer?

I wonder how the grade system works at Cisco? For example: if you are grade 8 and take a grade 7 role would you get downgraded? That would be illogical, would it? Okay it would also be stupid to take a lower grade job in general.

It’s funny how much this company tries to look good and relies on old glory. The leadership is refusing to notice how much the company has started to lag behind in innovation and how much it is stuck in the past. Unfortunately, it seems to me to... — read more 

And I believe all lives matter. BLM, Asian lives matter too. God made us one and all. I believe that with all my heart. But on the matter of money, did Cisco give money to social justice charity and political charity? I heard that one person on... — read more 

Somewhat new (6 months) to Cisco, and I am a SA. Can someone help me understand why we are doing Agile TSA cause it seems problematic and not very customer friendly based on my limited experience so far.

Shelly was in full spin mode during her all hands. It is embarrassing for her and it is an insult to our security sellers to have such a lack of sales leadership. I am hearing help is on the way for Shelly. I sure hope it gets to her quickly... — read more 

Or someone is raising a false alarm? I hear a lot of rumors about big layoffs coming.

Huge layoff coming due to inflation and upcoming tax increases

What do I have to do?

Prem Jain and the gang?

How is Cisco handling this delicate issues? People are losing eyes, to black mold?

Bill & Melinda Gates would change the world?

Management Sucks and behaving Ruthless No growth Too much process oriented

I hear that it's all about who you know and how connect you are - would you care to chime in?

If I let my manager know I've found a new position with higher pay, is there any chance I'll be offered the same to stay here? Or anything else to compensate for the difference? I like my job. I don't want to leave but with my wife expecting our... — read more 

HEAR ALL ABOUT IT !!!! HEAR ALL ABOUT IT !!!! …. You will not want to miss this edition. First, you will get to hear that she is “The” VP. (Thankfully you will not hear how she broke the glass ceiling in her rise to the VP of Sales. If you... — read more 

Cisco used to claim they would eliminate the last auto collision. So why don't they invest? Electric car battery technology funding? Someone stole the catylitic converter from my Toyota, apparently because Toyota uses pallidium (which is... — read more 

And in general, how did you deal with favoritism in this company? Of course, this is not something that is characteristic only for this company, but here it happens more and more often that some people have special treatment while everyone else... — read more 

People copy people! There are less and less of those who boost morale and good role models to look up to. There are more and more of those who are negative role models. Recently, a man left whose positive attitude at work inspired me to do my best... — read more 

Let's save money and not fire people for no good reason???

I know people who are way too emotionally invested in Cisco and I can't understand why. The company has proven over and over again that it doesn't give a rat's a-s about you, so why would you care or worry about what's happening with the company? Do... — read more 

Nicd job cisco! 150M. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/cisco-hbcus-student-loan-debt-modern-technology-minority-institutions-2021-5%3famp

Shelly Blackburn missed BIG time in security bookings. Don’t let the earnings announcement fool you. Yes, Security was up 13% but that includes reoccurring revenue, but Security bookings were completely down and did not make plan. Of course,?there... — read more 

I hired on in 2000. Made it until LR 2017. Over that long window, I worked for (only) three great Directors who definitely pushed us, but also rewarded us with generous options and RSUs. The big difference it sounds like between then and now... — read more 

When did we become a tech company that is not led by innovation but entirely by what is deemed acceptable by our accounting department? They are the ones who make all the important decisions here and it's becoming more blatantly obvious day in day... — read more 

Instead of laying off Engineering every quarter, why not develop better hiring practices?

Giving 80k employees RSI's every year?

Our Cisco rep has been pitching Intersight like mad also. While I will admit that they have some interesting features, we will definitely not recommend it to our partners and customers. The reason is that dealing with Cisco is like dealing with a... — read more 

Management is silent Key people left Ver sad to see

What an irony. It took me long to start looking for a new job because I do not like the idea of starting over from scratch, then I got a job offer in another company and when I hesitated to accept it and give notice, I received RSU. Something similar... — read more 

And why isn’t this at Cisco?? Lol. We don’t do any original research and development that’s why. https://youtu.be/Q13CishCKXY

MM and the funky bunch are just destroying CX services, and Cisco from the inside out. Resource Profiles encourage the mile wide, superficial inch deep approach. What happen to actual experts in CX?

Something I don’t hear much about these days…Cisco’s IoT products & solutions. There was a renewed emphasis on this segment a few fiscal years ago. Are solutions like Cybervision resonating with customers? Or is just peddling more switch ports in IoT... — read more 

I was on a call with someone from Cisco's UCS sales team last week. They are touting Intersight as the best thing Cisco has ever come up with. They are saying it's a game changer that is going to knock VMware's Tanzu and Google's Anthos right out... — read more 

Heard revenue for email security is down significantly, eaten up Microsoft and Proofpoint. Cisco management has decided to reinvest in this market segment. Time to move on to areas being invested in.

Are we getting any now? When do the web letters go out?