US have admitted 12 million illegal immigrants and they are adding extra burden on resources and Tax payers are supporting these illegals. Why you folks hate H1/L1's or Legal immigrants from India or China. How many Indians and chinese have committed... — read more 

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/02/10/cisco-mpls-mazzola-jain-cafiero-jiandani-pensando.html

There will be 5k gone after Q2 results. Everything is already pre'd. Welcome to the Cisco family.

I think Cisco has lost the plot. In the past 6 months I know 7 or 8 people (myself included) who have resigned - some of whom had been there over 18 years. Not one of them received an exit interview, phone call from HR or anything. No attempt at all... — read more 

Will it take off or just become another failure like the DX80? Great product but the fact you need Spark to run it makes me question if it'll take off.

Anyone hearing what orgs will be hit with February layoffs? Also, #'s assosicated with it? Or is it looking like a large August LR again?

“pattern and practice of hiring discrimination” against qualified White, Hispanic and African American applicants in favor of Asian applicants, namely Asian Indians, in the Professional Technical 1, Individual Contributor and the Product Development... — read more 

I've heard from a reliable source in HR that there is talk about reconsidering the above what's legally required redundancy packages. The reason behind it is that they've realised too many people have now given up and are just waiting for the... — read more 

Why hasn't Cisco taken a stand against the Immigration Ban? 97 companies are standing against it and Cisco isn't. WTF? Is this a "We [again] cannot make up our mind?" or Is it because the boards and councils are still thinking about it?... — read more 

http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2017/01/13/justices-will-weigh-limits-on-worker-rights-to-sue-employers-n2271270

Massive layoffs coming as we are looming at Q2 results. Tough to predict how many people but initial count of 14k which was originally leaked to media will be completed with this round of layoffs. We can easily expect lot of heads to rollon

"Reuters' Stephen Nellis reported this week that ACI software itself may not be doing particularly well. Nellis said he saw documents that showed Cisco had $888 million in contracts for its Nexus 9000 switches but only $89 million for ACI. That means... — read more 

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/31/slack-signs-ibm-and-capital-one.html Funny how when Slack and its competitors are discussed, Spark never comes up. Good night sweet Prince.

https://blogs.cisco.com/csr/vote-for-cisco-csr-in-the-2017-boston-college-csr-film-festival

I started working at Cisco last June. At first it was a great opportunity but last November my team moved under a new director and things are not going as they were when I first started. My coworker moved to another BU and he has been here for 9... — read more 

There are too many posts on here stating there ars LR's all over the place. If it's not over 1000 people it's not an LR it's just human capital management. Q2 results will be poor, but there won't be a big LR then there is no point. There will be a... — read more 

Found that being a part of this organization people with glamour and show sells more than real work . 1) Most VPs and directors spend hours together in parlors and gyms then in the office. 2) Run some projects for visibility with pomp and show and... — read more 

Anyone else being turned down at the first gate when looking for a new job? I've got a solid CV and 10 years at Cisco in sales. I've been snubbed by 3 large SaaS and cloud companies following the first screening calls. One seemed very concerned that... — read more 

This is only SJ. Other sites lay off more and not disclose. http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/WARN-Report-for-7-1-2016-to-01-25-2017.pdf

Rumors are swirling that a 10% staffing cut is coming to IT over the next two quarters. Anyone else hear this? Not sure how much work we can take on from all the previous LRs not being backfilled. Workload getting insane.

Denying LR's even when they are published under California WARN act - and any other LR happening around the globe? A new low has been reached.

Why doesn't everyone affected and or angry with what Cisco, a highly profitable company, has done send Trump a Tweet, email and letter telling him how you've been affected and that Cisco is replacing American jobs with foreign workers domestically... — read more 

Another 25 got axed last week in SJ... Cisco needed the additional money to buy app dynamics... lol.. 01/13/2017 01/17/2017 01/17/2017 Cisco Systems, Inc. San Jose 25 Layoff Permanent... — read more 

150+ people laid off today. Average age being 39 and the median is 41. I believe this is the same group that was LR'd over the summer. Wonder if anybody is still there or if Cisco is conceding the cloud.

Is it a good buy that compliments the Cisco offering or just another great growing company, Cisco will destroy during the intergration and with its terrible sales execution on acquisition? Is Cisco trying to play in too many areas, to the point where... — read more 

My 2 cents. With the "people deal" or as I call it the "people squeal" Cisco has severed the link between employees and their managers. There is no longer a yearly appraisal where goals are worked towards , attained, not attained or partially... — read more 

The details regarding a California court ruling last week against Cisco's motion to deny an employee's right to a jury trial should serve as a wake up call to everyone seeking employment, whether at Cisco or somewhere else. The bottom line is that... — read more 

After careful consideration the ETL have decided that instead of laying off another 1000 people from the US, they will have a Hunger Games in the car park of building 25. Last person standing gets a directorship!

Not sure of H-Hour. Be prepared - Bangalore torpedoes armed, webbing tight and all pouches closed. Collect your money and move on.

I was hit in Sept, 2017, I believe this is due to age that I was 40 last year,but I think this is a very suitable time to leave that I can still find a job to extend my career instead of 45 years later. I got a very very good package that is totally... — read more 

I know for a fact there is a directive from the highest levels to lower the average age of Cisco and so does anyone effected by it. The trade press will never write anything to publicise this as they could be sued and secondly they rely on... — read more 

I was laid off in Sep 2016. There was on reason given. I was told that is was not a performance issue. I was told, by my manager, that he was handed a note (from his manager) that essentially had my name on it and he was told to read the specific... — read more 

Today's news has left me and at others in shock. To promote this type of person to arch leader is just bad logic. Not surprised business is so bad. Anyone got inside track?

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/19/zoom-growing-faster-than-slack-okta.html

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-cisco-arbitration-20170 http://www.insidecounsel.com/2017/01/18/cisco-loses-bid-to-arbitrate-age-bias-suit

Uuugh...just got hit. I was notified yesterday..sounds like another big one.