Cisco seems to be a sinking ship. Nothing the ELT does seems to make things better. In the mid-to-late 2000's, the (then) Global Government Solutions Group produced a customized version of standard Cisco gear that included US non-export encryption... — read more 

Heard from a reliable management source that there will be more layoffs in the UK after the Q2 results are announced. Apparently Enterprise have had a shocking H1 and people above are viewing this as an indicator the rest of the uk will follow in the... — read more 

If this is Cisco's Cloud strategy to combat Amazon/Google/Azure, I think it's time to call your broker and sell. http://blogs.cisco.com/cloud/multicloud-world

www.thelayoff.com/dell

Wal-Mart is a good example of employee movement. When they lay-off people everybody lays off people. Sorry fellas. It's been to know you.

I heard that Ulevitch starts culling whole groups within SBG. Only his child (OpenDNS) going to be safe.

Under his legislation, any company paying H-1B workers less than $100,000 would have to show they couldn't hire Americans for the same jobs. Existing law has a similar requirement but sets the threshold at $60,000, a level established in 1998, and... — read more 

REPOST ... but all the signs are here for the end of Q2 Let me give you a peek into the workings of an LR (Source: @IGXXwSC-1gdx ). About a 3 months in advance you start to see the warning signs. Backfills don't get approved, OpEx gets slashed... — read more 

Contractors in the collaboration group have been put on furlough for rest of the quarter. I am not sure if this is across the company. I wonder if more layoffs are coming next quarter.

https://www.thestreet.com/story/13941230/1/why-cisco-s-stock-price-may-be-stuck.html

https://cdn.ampproject.org/c/www.networkworld.com/article/3148784/lan-wan/what-to-expect-from-cisco-in-2017.amp.html

I wish Cisco a great success, be #1 cloud company and no more layoffs ... ... Yes, I still believe in Santa :D

President Elect Trump had a Tech Summit a few weeks ago at his tower in NYC so all the "heavyweights" of Silicon Valley could come and kiss his ring; Tim Cook (Apple), Cheryl Sandberg (Facebook), Larry Page (Google), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Elon Musk... — read more 

I've been on here quietly reading the posts and I have to say there is a lot of negativity. I suspect most of it is from people who got LR'd and are bummed to be out of the easiest place to make money I can think of. Cisco is without doubt the best... — read more 

I know lot of people got laid off in 2016 like never before, but no one really knows exact figure. I am primarily looking number of Cisco Employees laid off in US all over 2016. Does anyone have reliable sources to quote accurate Figures only for US?

...to forget about Cisco and all its failings for a few days and enjoy the holiday break. Happy Christmas to all.

the morals of the Cisco exec team on show again....

Say i am off to a competitor, how many days should be the notice period ? I could not find a link to resign online from HR page in CEC although there is a one according to my colleagues who took the same route before, any idea where it is buried in... — read more 

How are folks in Insieme doing under David G.? Anything interesting happening in last few months?

I want to thank Cisco for laying me off and the nice parting gift. Of course I was bitter. But, As many have noted, only until you are away from the dysfunction do you clearly see what a joke the company is. All of you that are fresh out of college... — read more 

It's been a pretty turbulent year so far and we're not even half way. Revenue is down, employee moral is down, over 7k people were sacked and more are choosing to leave daily, Arista wins legal decision, Intercloud is dropped, pulling out of... — read more 

Had our Christmas party last Friday night in a lovely hotel. Nice food, good wine but the lowest attendance I've ever seen at one of these events. Thankfully the spouses and partners bulked up the numbers a little bit to make it look less... — read more 

At least from this video. Wait, where are all the employees over 25 years old?? https://youtu.be/WtGi-uDl-Q8

http://fortune.com/2016/12/14/cisco-arista/

IBM to hire 25,000 more workers in the US in the next four years and invest $1billion in employee development, tech boss vows ahead of Trump meeting About 6,000 of the new appointments are due to be made in 2017 IBM will invest $1billion on employee... — read more 

Report in as you hear of teams and locations impacted. blues and reds are impacted this cycle Nothing says "happy holidays" like a pink slip.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/13/cisco_to_kill_its_intercloud_public_cloud_on_march_31st_2017/

Now that I am gone from Cisco I find myself missing the CISCO BEAT sessions. Really. They were always a little painful to watch but the last handful were both cringe-worthy and telling at the same time. The topics were getting less and less useful... — read more 

I've heard that ppl who got LR'd but got rehired before termination date can't be LR'd again within a certain timeframe. Anyone know anything aboot this?

Vote away!

November - we have 5 new H1Bs. With something like this happening, this country will never ever be great again

Read it here: http://www.businessinsider.com/cisco-ceo-chuck-robbins-convince-trump-increase-h1b-visas-2016-12

What do you get from the latest reorg announcement. This is my take. The consolidated IOS-XE, XR, and NXOS never occurred in reality except in the org chart. Bringing together PI/PD boundaries achieved nothing except that not a single group can be... — read more