Good luck folks !!!!!

Cisco Mgmt always bs the importance of recognition and promotion. As a Cisco sales person or engineer, you may try your best to get the sales target and recognition of Chairman Club and Sales Champion. Someone who got Chairman Club and Sales Champion... — read more 

I was part of the Cisco Jasper 1.4billion acquisition. Another sad example of how large company can mangle an agile and innnovative product. New management from Cisco came in and it was so painful to see them wrestle with basic SAAS concepts. They... — read more 

So much for all of this internal HR BS give-and-take nonsense. When a company wants to meet some stock target they dont hesitate to throw people under the bus. Cisco upper management is totally rudderless and spine-less. They even didnt have guts to... — read more 

For layoffs this scale, I'm surprised there's barely any media coverage. All I could find were two articles that address the issue directly. I'm starting to think the timing of this was intentional to coincide with elections and get buried among what... — read more 

Why am I not even surprised anymore?

It's not your fault!! I suffer from depression personally and was impacted by this LR. I sometimes sit and cry, thinking I let my family down by losing my job, but I know it was out of my hands. I worry about my children's future. I worry about being... — read more 

Nothing happening here, but I see here people mentioning some have been show the door today. Where? How many? Any details?

Balancing books with head count reductions is bad for business Cisco! The ramifications from these business-as-usual layoffs impact real people, with real lives and real families and Cisco thinks it's OK because that's just the nature of running a... — read more 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/11/06/cisco_layoffs_customer_experience/

I was not affected by the layoffs yesterday.But the way the layoffs have been handled I cannot in good conscience continue working for this company.As soon as I find employment elsewhere I am out of Cisco.I know some of my fellow managers feel the... — read more 

Cisco is for sale and the question now is who is buying which pieces?

Every year you have these mass layoffs,you never know when the shoe will drop on anyone.It doesn’t matter if your a top performer or not.You treat contractors like second class citizens in the company,of which there many,there not entitled to... — read more 

Why not inform your employees what your intentions are why your doing what your doing,and how many are being affected.Instead you give out pink slips,out of the blue,affecting who knows how many,since there’s no transparency.You think that’s good for... — read more 

Just heard the company is preparing to sell off in 2019. Is it true?

I'm stressing once again (nothing new for me in the past several years, courtesy of working at Cisco) wondering if yesterday was it or if we'll see even more layoffs today. Any chance we know for sure what today is going to look like? I could really... — read more 

Best financial run we’ve had in a long time as you say, so why layoff right before the holidays? I was not impacted but know many who were, several already on teams with low resources and support from upper management, those engineers left over are... — read more 

Cisco always had the taste for inviting outside people for the dirty job of letting people go. The size of the company and the amount of managerial layers (7+) tells one thing - there is no way the head knows what the feet do. Many leaders fail to... — read more 

c--p BGL support & outdated vpn to vpn support

Special thanks to BOA and HSBC for carrying CMS on their backs

Over the past few years, Cisco has made it increasingly clear they are more concerned with propagating irrelevant social issues rather than maintaining focus on its core technologies and product line. Those in charge of the CX "restructuring" are... — read more 

Here is a novel outsourcing proposal - let's outsource the entire Cisco IT to Red Badges. All I ever see is red badges from Wipro, IBM, Infy... So, just give it to them, outsource it, and done deal... Verizon just outsourced the entire IT group to... — read more 

SJ BLDG K Floor 2 and 3 were hit. VPN team is gone, WSA team is gone, FTD team in Maryland you know the guys who actually understand the product are gone, someone hit in Phoenix AZ. I was one of those impacted. Every year I have been at Cisco a... — read more 

Is Cisco exiting the premise Contact Center market entirely with these cuts?

Looking for honest and reasonable guidance here. I'm end of pregnancy, management was aware. What are my options? as you can understand not easy to get hired again being pregnant.

I just heard that the CCIE lab program is being cut back. Cisco is shutting down the labs in RTP and SJC. As of Dec/Jan there will be ONE location in the US to take the CCIE Lab and that’s in Richardson, TX.

Why don’t I see a news?

Be part of the corruption, don't be ethical and honest, don't tell on your peer's and manager's or they will be sure to get you ....

CX

the cuts were deep in boxborough - over 60 affected

Attended a leadership event a couple of weeks ago which had a lab exercise. In this exercise, we were the big boss and the scenario given was a red badge's contract would be expiring soon, he's an exceptional employee, a tech lead, team player and... — read more 

Afyer several years i got the cisco white envelope today. This site provided amazingly accurate predictions for several layoffs ocer the years despite the inane racist banter of its participants Im off to greener pastures in a post ciaco world

Blue badge employee of 5 years working in the IT department. Got my restructuring package today, I'm a little surprised, but mostly happy. Goodbye slave-like hours, goodbye being the only resource in US hours for my technologies, good bye to a... — read more 

Should it be N or N+1 typically? Thank you.

Our entire 200-300 person team received a 1:M invite from our VP to find out everyone was being let go. Figured the news couldn't be too bad since everyone was on the invite but that changed fast in the first minute of the call. Hope this isn't the... — read more 

For the new folks on this board - there is an "ACTIVE" button right above the first thread - you can use it to see what posts had recent replies.

I look over my shoulder at Cisco every day; have I added value, and am I doing things that are consistent with the changes Cisco NEEDS to make to remain relevant (let alone GROW)? I am a mid-senior level resource with a background in traditional IT... — read more 

Anyone?

I would want to work for Cisco again. I got my notice. It's just business. Great culture, great people. I'll get another job, the market is great, but I will totally look for an opportunity to come back. The business is changing (anyone surprised... — read more