Is this how we should interpret recent events? Or, should I say it's a weekly thing? Such a great way to utterly f--- up the morale.

A massive LR will be announced during the earnings call conference at 1:30 PM PST. 7000 heads will be wacked and an additional 4000 might be chopped at the end of Q2. Business is not good and is not expected to improve. Do yourself a favor and... — read more 

Software Engineers at Cisco, are HEAVILY underpaid. At least in San Jose area. Yes, the work is more flexible, but I don't think this justifies the magnitude of underpayment. II recently interviewed at Tier 1 Sillicon Valley companies, and now have... — read more 

Financial Magic for the Twenty First Century and beyond: As long as Cisco still has money parked outside the States, they'll keep buying back shares, and paying dividends. The combination of Regular LR and dividends hopefully still ease up investors... — read more 

There are a lot of rules for signing and returning your agreement, things you might not think of on your own. Be sure you're following the instructions exactly.

We'll all eat crickets in 20 years, says Cisco's Chambers https://www.cnet.com/news/crickets-for-dinner-in-20-years-says-cisco-john-chambers/

2 news outlets are saying dead body found likely suicide - why do the threads here keep going down?

CISCO paid $5B for NDS. Cisco unsuccessfully attempted to get synergy between the two businesses using 4 or 5 senior Cisco executives (one very, very senior executive declined the job and smartly took PTO to care for a family member). Cisco... — read more 

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3311211-report-cisco-cuts-60-employees-cloud-operations

stop spread rumors. no layoff happen on nov. 8th.

Wtf do people send goodbye emails? They are annoying especially if I don't even know you

Recently I got LR package and the very first paragraph mentioned that " My services are not required at Cisco". Now I got affected because the BU I worked had less market share. What it means that Cisco products are not required in market any more... — read more 

CPSG got hit today. Time for a collective sigh of relief, as we sort of knew it was coming, but the anxiety of waiting and wondering is over. Many people had new jobs lined up already. If you are visiting this board frequently, then you know about... — read more 

...listening to all your griping and complaining here. Our BU got the ax, but fortunately was sold off instead of thrown into the dumpster. I can already feel my IQ slowly increasing at our new acquisition home. Best thing that could've happened to... — read more 

The last thread on this topic got deleted ! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-31/cisco-is-said-to-seek-buyer-for-digital-tv-software-unit-nds

I keep hearing that there is going to be a small LR in SBG this week. Anyone heard the same? Any news what groups/location exactly?

People impacted by the October LR who have found jobs at other industry companies are now having their information circulated as "enemies". This results is 50+ LinkedIn profile views in a single day from people up and down the Cisco org chart. That's... — read more 

Scroll down to the chart https://www.geekwire.com/2017/study-microsoft-teams-pass-slack-google-hangouts-second-used-business-chat-app-2018/

For years now Cisco forces Americans and Canadians to take multiple days off at Christmas. Other locations are encouraged but have better employment laws to prevent. Not sure how Cisco can declare something a mandatory day closed and then force... — read more 

If you were impacted on the 10 October LR day you will get your last normal Cisco Paycheck today. Maybe it should be framed.

https://m.economictimes.com/nri/visa-and-immigration/india-very-strongly-raises-h-1b-visa-issue-with-us-suresh-prabhu/articleshow/61287982.cms

Nov 8th is the day. Lots more coming worldwide Anybody knows where this info came from? Any credibility to it?

Thought this was interesting, check out the second chart, more Cisco employees are open to new opportunities than Yahoo! Wow... — read more 

PingID wasted at least 5 minutes of my day, management level know?

Anyone else had a shocking quarter?

Poster child of Cisco's growth missed the numbers second time in a row. Layoffs imminent.

Now that SG runs the show in EN, there will only be promos and RSU's for his inner circle. Thoughts? Good decision by SH to promote?

Any upcoming layoffs for Lawrenceville?

Am hearing Jen's was made a scapegoat and Spark call is all but finished? There's an argument that it was never started to be finished but whatever. It all seems a bit hush hush at the moment though.

Super legit leak from Fran's team. Cisco just licensed some new music for people deal 2018. They're only showing it to directors grade 13+ and feedback has been very positive so far. https://youtu.be/VoAfb3f04mo?t=9s

Here is what I know so far, IT has been asked to look at email server logs and search for employees who have sent a reply to all email with the text "please remove me from your list" in the message body. This list will apparently be stack ranked... — read more 

Today is the last business day in Q1. I have heard from reliable rumors that on or before the earnings release day (Nov 15), many will be let go. There has been several meetings by higher ups management regarding the next chopping block. The 1,100... — read more 

Thankfully I was fired this week. The job had become a nightmare, getting up in the morning was really hard, getting to work was a burden, having fun at work was old history and my passion for the work was lost and I felt burned by the short term... — read more 

There is no strategy. About 6 months after the closing of the deal, there will be an L1/L2 offsite to discuss strategy. By the time the All-Hands is done, there will be more talk about the strategy but the execution will be delayed at which point the... — read more 

[The “trouble” is coming from a move by the Trump administration that will raise the bar for H-1B visa holders in the United States seeking to renew their permits to work here. Also impacted by the directive announced this week is the L1 visa, which... — read more 

I'm really worried. Does Anyone have any inside scoop or thoughts on who is getting axed? I work in sales org.

This is from Juniper's board - they are having massive layoffs this week because of this. A decline in data center hardware spending by major cloud providers could be more than a temporary blip for major networkers like Juniper Networks. That’s the... — read more 

Lots of tears. October 24 layoffs at Juniper - https://www.thelayoff.com/t/PUxqoSL == direct link @PUxqoSL