As someone who is not impacted in this LR, I look at how badly this one has been handled and how diligent and professional colleagues are being treated, actually I feel like I am impacted. This will go down in history as a major turning point in... — read more 

Keep hearing about this on this site, but cannot. Please corroborate and provide some insights. Timeline, Groups, Teams, Technology, etc.

Is it 240 hours max or 280 hours ?

I worked with multiple grade 12s and 13s that were non-technical. No knowledge in anything remotely technical. These people were good at internal processes, joining webexes, taking minute notes and getting other people to do their ask for them. They... — read more 

Most tech companies have an analytics strategy with data science. How is Cisco in this field? Are they using advance techniques to gather business intelligence? Are they competing with the Googles of the world?

I was really disappointed when John Chambers and the Board picked Chuck as the new CEO. It really felt like this was a great opportunity to get an outsider with a fresh view, to rethink the company's next act. Now we have the same jackassery with a... — read more 

Lots of good, hard working and high performers that are the crucial underpinning to the Cisco engine are impacted by the last LR. There are still a lot of lazy, low performers around. They played the political game as well as the kiss up game to... — read more 

I was given a bottom ranking one year, when the previous year (in the exact same role - no requirements had changed), was ranked the highest employee on the team - received an additional bonus even for being the highest. We had no new-hires onto our... — read more 

Titles of positions and Grade system are meant to keep the salary structures really low . This is the real trick that no one seems to understand . The salaries here are 25 - 35 % lower than the industry rates while the work required to be done for... — read more 

Been offered a Product Manager job at Cisco ? What are the challenges here is it worthwhile ?

We all know Cisco CFO is from GE and she hired another finance big head from P&G. There is a big presentation from Cisco finance recently being floated around on how to create brands from Cisco products...:) Bravo CFO. They finally have figured out a... — read more 

Many of us were hoping that the latest round of our yearly "purge" would cut down on the vile oders eminating from breakroom microwaves and filthy WCs. Sadly, that is not the case. Bad code, banal "strategy" power points, discustingly smelly squiggly... — read more 

To answer the questions from our UK colleague, CTS has its own bonus system far less appealing than the CISCO one, especially for grades 10 and below. CTS has less leaves than CISCO France also. Thanks to the "CE" members that are so called... — read more 

Hilton's Cisco M&A team as we know is very active in sourcing deals and in charge of closing deals....Someone commented earlier in another post that they sometimes block company presentation, even from a possible list of targets if the team senses... — read more 

This ... http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-culture-ate-our-corporate-reputation-1475445084

Biri is out...in 1 year 3 months time.....Bad for Chuck

Since the last day was Sep 19, and assuming that Cisco gets the separation agreement by the 19 and they allow for 7 days from sep 19 for withdrawals of the agreement, they should start sending out the final check this week right? Do any of you know... — read more 

Hello guys I see many of you lesser IPF (0.5 or 0.6% ) - which is for a bottom 5 to just move on. Move is ok , but I suppose you cant rejoin back anytime even when the company you join gets aquired by Cisco. Why isnt anybody not showing any anger on... — read more 

I've heard that the new guidance is to give RSUs to all GL10+ except to those on exceptionally low performance (pip or bottom 10%). Is that true

Hello hardworking sheeple, back from my 2 week vacation. Looking forward to getting back to my usual phone games and milk my sugar daddy Cisco. Deadwood over and out.

I wonder if the ELTever gets hate mail/email. They are worthless scum. I think we should replace them with millenials. Horrible people.

Heard from what I believe is a reliable source that only Directors and above will be getting RSU grants this year.

I'm going to make this short and sweet. Word of advice, if your manager is ALWAYS showing off and only talks about his/herself RUN and RUN HARD! This selfish person will not help you but his/her own self. Learn from an old Cisco sailor who's been... — read more 

Hello , from termination letter how to check if u r in bottom 5 or a LR ?

This week I heard from two sources, that directors were asked to prepare another lists for layoffs to execute in Q2 (as usual, after the earnings calls). Anyone heard something similar?

My bonus was $250. This is 1/30th of what I usually get. I have his personal email address so I'm literally thinking about transferring $250 to his paypal account.

Would have been cheaper for my manager to give me a raise, now they are scrambling to save the project. My point is you have the power not your manager.

Seriously... The amount is so small it's like a slap in the face. I'm wondering if my boss was trying to send a message. I can't even make half of my car payment with it. I'd rather of received nothing.

What impression did you get of your manager telling you're layed off? Was he really sorry (and if so, do you still think he feels sorry after more than 1 month)? Was he indifferent? Was he happy?

The yearly bonus is calculated as: target % based on your grade * Company performance factor (CPF) * Individual performance factor (IPF). The CPF was 1.05 this year. This means that if you got less than 105% of your expected bonus - you got a low... — read more 

I hear that a group of Cisco people made redundant in the UK are grouping together for a group action against Cisco, can anybody confirm

1) did cisco mail out bonus letters by usmail to those who got it? Did you guys receive it? 2) 30 Sept seems to be deposit date so we'll know for sure then but trying to figure out now .

Considering Cisco is moving away from hardware, the Capital leasing and loan business is drying up. Rumors from inside Cisco Capital say that CSFI is being wound down, painfully slowly. Senior directors at CSFI being laid off, company being... — read more 

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When will the bonus gets deposited into the account?

Had enough of the BS....plenty of really good opportunities out there. I was trying to get my self on the list of LR's , even hinted to my manager that i want to be let go but that didn't work. Decided not to wait for someone to make the decision for... — read more