http://blogs.cisco.com/lifeatcisco/welcome-to-cisco-bedfont-lakes-the-uks-flagship-office Chill out zones You can find many “chill out zones” in all three Cisco buildings at Bedfont Lakes. This is where we come to relax or take a break. How? Well... — read more 

https://finance.yahoo.com/m/dfa86a24-3a59-35d3-8df7-ff376bcf6815/arista-notches-another-win.html Bye Bye Cisco, Bye Bye Cisco, Bye Bye Cisco, I am so glad you let me go!

Can anyone tell me what software Cisco sells that is market leading and will likely stay that way for the next 1-2 years? I'm racking my brain and struggle to see how Cisco is going to hold it all together and become a Software business with so many... — read more 

Rock on Cisco!!! http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/WARN_Report_for_7-1-2016_to_05-25-2017.pdf

Heard from recruiter couple of days ago. Whats up with that group? Any layoffs there?

Yet another piece of trash from Cisco (ume etc..). https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/23/15680250/google-jamboard-digital-whiteboard-hands-on-video

Look at where the new kids are coming from, for a graduate scheme made for UK young starting their lives, it seems only UCL foreign nationals are hired. Perhaps cause that whole management chain (CG, OS, PG) are not British, hire like themselves.

The water cooler talk is that Cisco is looking for potential buyers of its server business. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/18/cisco_servers/ No proper roadmap. The true visionaries have moved to Pure storage and Dell. The leaders of this group... — read more 

In the UK we were told we needed to be more of an office culture and they announced a massive investment in to Bedfont Lakes. I would not be surprised if it Monday to Thursday becomes mandatory in the office (or at customer site).

Over the past year Cisco has managed to rid itself of a lot of good folk by making their jobs so miserable or underpaid they left for the competition. Nothing new there, it happens in every industry. The difference is that Cisco hasn't been... — read more 

Can someone share the exact date managers must hand in the division of bonus between their reportees (IPFs)? I understand its around beginning of August or end of July. Is that true?

Any chance we'll get anything? I noticed that the regular "Quarterly P&LI bonus update" post on jive, was not updated after Q3. That's probably not a good sign.

Anyone know the numbers for UK yet?

While the employees are sh-- scared about their existence and eagerly awaiting updates, some of the execs are shamelessly posting their golfing and exotic vacations photos along with a champagne bottle on social networking sites. Am I blessed to be... — read more 

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO TROLL POSTS. You’ve noticed that we have a troll who is trying to pepper this board with racially and politically charged posts. The language of hate is unacceptable and against the rules of this site. I will personally commit... — read more 

IBM Just Committed Cultural and Creative Suicide https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/ibm-just-committed-cultural-and-creative-suicide.html

When are we going to cut back on the executive cafeteria? I'm not talking about the one next to the EBC which is for visiting customers, but for the custom catered meals that the xVPs get in building 10. They get catered food which is hand picked... — read more 

Everyone are worried. No one dares to speak about this in public though.

I'm in my mid 50s, so I expect to become extinct this year. Anyone here in their 60s?

Many of the teams in UCS/data center had All hands meetings with their Second line managers or directors saying they will announce impacted employee's list in 2 weeks time frame.. not sure whts going on in their mind. The logic was given as if they... — read more 

What peeved me was as they were firing me and a lot of other 50+ people, Chambers was throwing a huge party for himself. Thanks John, Rock on Chuck T shirts - who would do something like this other than someone with a personality like Trump. Living... — read more 

The whole "Service Delivery Executive" thing is a joke. These guys then think they are sales, and marginalize those in the sales teams who are actually out trying to meet the customer's needs. They have no skin in the game (no quota), so they make... — read more 

I got LR'd and I have a question about In Lieu pay. After the one month notice period, I get In Lieu pay in a lump sum. Am I still eligible for this lump sum payment if I have already started work at another company?

If I was Chuckles......I would split the company into two entities. Hardware / Software.

Sadly I believe the 1100 layoffs this month is just the appetizer and the main course will be in August, as usual. There have been comments that Cisco was appending these 1100 to last August's 5500 in order to keep it within the fiscal year (and... — read more 

CSCO is working on a major overhaul whereby all those who WFH/remote will have to come to the office 5 days a week (M-F). This will be implemented just before Q4 ends. Employees will be given 2 weeks to adjust to the new norm. Those who wont comply... — read more 

Cisco LR...a disaster of biblical proportions, Old Testament, real wrath-of-God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes… The dead rising from the grave. Human... — read more 

According to threads BUs seems to be more impacted, mostly on DTG, UCS and possibly wireless. All talk about hundreds and we still miss Sales and AS and rest of the world....are we possible going for more than 1100 and that between layoffs... — read more 

I heard that the road maps have been cut down and sales were told to wind things down. Anyone heard something similar?

So the share price failed to make any recovery yesterday after an 8% crash following earnings and a further 0.5% drop the next day. My concern is where the share price will be in 2 or 3qtr time when consecutive declines in revenue become the norm... — read more 

Has anyone heard of layoffs in Advance Services? Rumor is, AS is not profitable

Partner with Pure Storage and your revenue and stock will plummet like theirs. For all those laid off, you should realize that sh-- show is to blame

I don't know if this month's LR will take some pressure off the presumed LR coming in august. The most we can do is to be prepared and have your go-bag ready and your Plan-B in place.

Here is about a dozen trending article's on Cisco right now... Have fun.... Forbes Cisco's Network Security, Wireless Products Drive Results by Trefis Team... — read more 

Yep. Let's dispense with the "restructuring", LR, Layoff, whatever the PC phrase of the day is --- and call it what it is. People have been FIRED. It is amazing that people think up these stupid terms thinking that somehow it changes what actually... — read more 

I am sure these people are celebrating this week on another "successful" culling. What must it be like to be in this group? What kind of mindset must they have? What is their basis of job-satisfaction? I suspect it is how much pain they can inflict... — read more 

A peer of mine, director level, made it to 68 years old at Cisco having worked there the final 10 years of his career. His boss, a newly hired dip$hit, eliminated his job. Obvious move seeing that my peer was an "old white guy." Anyway, I asked at... — read more 

In my 10yrs at Cisco, I've never even heard of a retirement party. I think the chance for being LR'd or quitting (read: fed up) is too great. Actually, I have heard of one, when MPLS "retired" from their spin-ins. But outside of those four, nobody... — read more 

Keeping all the rhetoric on the age bias, nepotism/ nationality and h1b aside, does anybody know which groups / teams are affected most? 1100 is not a small number. Some groups must have lost 100s.