I am somewhat senior and here is my take. If you are junior, and you stay less than 2-3 years, it is a good first job. Perfect? No. You will learn a lot about good and not so good practices. If you are senior, then it is fine. You are getting top of... — read more 

Not heard of any LR's in about a week now. It might be some sort of record? Or maybe I'm not listening attentively enough! Happy Holidays folks. Next year could be your year :-)

A year or two ago, there were a lot of money in the cloud group, many people switched to them from another parts of Cisco, taking a raise a promotion. Fast-forward a year, and 90% of them is no longer with the company. If I were looking for something... — read more 

It's easy to come on here and write some negative controversial stuff. However, what are people's real thoughts about future employment at Cisco?

I'm looking for some guidance on reference checks. I once had a potential employer call Cisco to confirm my employment dates. I ended up taking a different job but I ran into this person recently. We talked about the reference check process. She said... — read more 

Rumors are swirling saying all contractors at Cisco will be forced to take an unpaid furlough in the week prior to holiday shut down. Has anyone heard more details about this?

There are many running bogus high visibility programs just to fabricate numbers and graphs for a promotion .

Using CISCO's most recent ad campaign...please feel free to fill in the blank

I've received an offer from a great company and feel really excited about a new start! Going to hand my notice in before the Xmas break. Anyone else? I get the sense there are a lot of people planning to.

I know job stability and Cisco don't get along but I am just keen to know if there is a safe place to hide from the storm in Cisco. I have seen Sales, Marketing, Engineering impacted widely in last few LRs, not much impact on AS. On top AS grew 7% in... — read more 

http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/networking/300082926/ciscos-top-5-most-highly-paid-executives-in-fy16.htm

I work in Cisco real estate and we have secured a buyer for approximately 70% of the RTP campus. The rest will be divested in CY18. Expect a massive RIF.

I was curious what everyone's outlook on TS (Technical Services) was. With quite a slump in hardware sales I imagine this is affecting the sales of service and support to a degree.

Take a look at the images and stories on the CEC home page and on Glassdoor and have that paint a picture for you. The marketing tells the story, in every human-interest story and in every picture: A gaggle of smiling 20 something's in t-shirts doing... — read more 

Someone said: "Attract, hire, retain" - This is where ELT is letting us down, and The Beat showed it. Basically the message is, "Be happy, we are. What's wrong with you? You should be happy! If you are not, leave." Well, a young star in our... — read more 

He typically gives two quarters for troubled groups to improve. He himself has now a year of failures, and declining outlook. How much time do you think he has left? Will he hang on for any cost or at some point call it a day and resign on his own... — read more 

I do not want to be laid off - nobody wants it. Yet, there are many rumors about potential job cuts here in San Jose.

We are a small sized site in Europe of under 200 employees. Less than two years ago a guy from Bangalore arrived for four months upskilling and to help to "improve relations" between our site and our remote counterparts in India where we had scrum... — read more 

I am really concerned about the core business. We are in decline, investment seems to be constrained, and I don't trust my leaders. Not to mention that we were told the lawsuit would stop Arista. I am starting to believe that people are just lying... — read more 

After a few quarters of growth to great fanfare from Trollope, things seemed to have returned to the bad 'ol days of negative growth. Collaboration as a business was prioritised by Cisco two years ago and sales guys were incentivized to sell collab... — read more 

Does anybody know how many people were laid off in Nov.?

It has been over a year since Fran rolled out The People Deal. I have seen less and less splash from HR and Fran on how it has made a difference. I also can't for the life of me figure out what it is besides a tagline, an ability for your manager to... — read more 

What are your top 3 target companies when you leave Cisco?

I have a couple of offers in the bag from other companies who are more where the markets at. I'm just gutted that I didn't get LR'd and paid to leave! I was hoping there might be some Christmas layoffs and I could try to be one of them, but this now... — read more 

Was it just me or did most the ELT look worn out during Beat? Chuck and Chris both looked like they were on an all night bender before turning up and Rowan isn't looking that fresh lately. Must be stressful at the top.

What are your thoughts? Rumors? News? Updates?

Today I overheard a woman say "They can't lay me off because I am a woman and there is not enough women in tech." As woman I must apologize for these feebleminded hypocrites who demand equality but quickly use their gender as a shield of protection... — read more 

The latest earnings report was pretty mediocre, as expected. It raises the question as to how long the new execs have before they get fired or leave. Any thoughts?

Look, the announcement about Cisco's challenging outlook was part of their layoff strategy all along. The decision to make bigger, deeper cuts was formulated months ago, but to sell this to the investors without spooking them, they needed to soften... — read more 

So revenue is down...... Big surprise there! So will we see more cuts in Q2 now? After all the dividend needs to keep growing, otherwise the pension and hedge funds will start going elsewhere.

True - he is finally out. Confirmed.

Any word on what's happening in the marketing and comms teams?

ONLY 42 LO in SJ a couple of week ago... I love cisco! http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/WARN_Report_for7-1-2016_to_11-10-2016.pdf