Seems like a ton of anxiety and worry over potential job losses. I will give my best advice (whether you work at Cisco or not) Corporations are not your friend, parent or caregiver. it is a transaction, not a 'relationship'. You provide a service in... — read more 

A lot of Americans never understand you just don't piss away your earned W2 income (sweat income) on useless crap from Walmart and the likes. Money represents freedom. The dollars you earn from your W2 or 1099 if you are a contractor, are soldiers to... — read more 

If your experience is in IT per se (programmer, DB, business system analyst, etc.), I wouldn't recommend at all looking for a job in another big tech-related Company like Oracle, Dell, IBM, MS, etc., etc., because sooner or later it will be the same... — read more 

The reality is any hi-tech company needs to evolve its portfolio, to adapt process and transform its org structure. Cisco has a heritage in delivering HW, which will increasingly commoditise and as with other hi tech firms , it will need to... — read more 

Cisco is looking like a baseball/hockey/soccer/basketball/football team with a lot of old players. As a member of them, I am feeling like an old player that cannot get the long term contract offered by the team management. You always feel you are on... — read more 

Any idea about what date folks are gonna get notified in San Jose ?

Newsflash folks. Cisco is a corporation. A big, monstrous, soul-less corporation. Cisco don't care. Caring is not what Cisco does. Cisco exists to stay in business. It used to innovate. Now it gobbles up innovators and spits out the bones every... — read more 

What is the impact of this in India ? Is technical services being moved from Bangalore to Pune?

As he was getting ready to depart, JC was very explicit (on several occastions): LAYOFFS ARE THE NEW NORMAL! Get used to it, it'll happen over and over again. We are in an extremely competitive environment and we are being pressured from all sides... — read more 

Cisco has a severe problem. In 2014 we had the mother load of layoffs to make sure we didn't have to keep with this layoff strategy. In 2015 rumors ran rampant on the next round of layoffs but in 2015 Cisco targeted layoffs to keep in hush hush... — read more 

I was LR'd a few months ago after 16 years. Best thing that could have happened. I am in my 50's and was curious if it had to do with my age. In the separation package there was a whole section with a list of the positions eliminated and the ages of... — read more 

I am a grunt in the trenches and have been for 16 years with Cisco. Look at the stock price over the last 16 years, no freebies to retirement during my time. Not sure why anyone believes Cisco owes you anything when they've sent you a paycheck every... — read more 

Will Cisco Capital in SJ be affected in the layoff?

Dear Chuckie and the rest of the clowns at the top, I know you and Fran and everyone that's part of the"ELT" are reading these comments at this site. This is your transparent Pulse survey. You talk transparency. Well guess what, all the views and... — read more 

There have been many posts indicating that Cisco is targeting employees based on age. This is illegal. In California, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing DFEH is the state agency charged with enforcing California’s civil rights laws. The... — read more 

Are we expecting same 15-20% of layoffs?

This is a post from last year, August, the same story... Watch out for dates prior to RSU vesting Large layoff took place the week of August 10th 1 month before RSU vesting on 9/11- Kelly Kramer the CFO didn't want to pay out the vested shares so... — read more 

I've been told by someone that is giving a notice in Engineering it will be Aug 17-18. It is possible they will do Sales Notifications next week because of GSX. However, they don't like to surprise Wall Street. So I think it is unlikely they will do... — read more 

Interesting instructions about text formatting @EITBv7r - Check this out #formatting https://www.thelayoff.com/h/formatting

I was laid-off in February after a 2 week notice. 60 days of in lieu pay 60 days severance pay PTO converted into cash 4 months payment for COBRA coverage Received mid-year bonus b/c I was still an employee when Q2 closed And I'm still looking for a... — read more 

Notifications on that day. No further details about the package or which groups. Rumor is Cloud and UCS groups which are under Biri Singh are in the first round. Don't know about David's groups.

https://contently.com/strategist/2016/07/22/why-cisco-hiring-200-content-marketers/ After laying off 200 people. Karen looks quite progressive, doesn't she?

So the project I am working on just received an email announcing the names of 5 people being let go, I do not know if they are RED or BLUE but it is sad when you affect someone's life this way.

We have been instructed to LR 10-20% of our employees this time both red and blue badge. I have been helping my employees find new jobs at other companies it makes me sick to play this yearly hunger game. Wonder what they would do if none of us... — read more 

There will be no Early Retirement (ER) package. Only Limited Restructuring (LR) 'Pink Slips'. The ER ship has sailed and will never sail again. Unless you are one of the blessed 'Leadership Team', you should expect a boilerplate separation notice... — read more 

I'm a red badge and my agency informed me this was the worst layoff they had seen in 13 years! Ive been with Cisco for 5 years and survived 7 layoffs...S E V E N! Blessing to you all.

OK so layoffs are around the corner. Does anyone know when people will be notified?

All this news is making me worried...at the same time I am getting more and more work...everything as usual high priority...whta do do ?

The worst part is the interruption to everyone's life during this time every year. Contractor's are not being extended and the FTEs are sitting on pins and needles wondering what will happen to them. Some people are hearing about another ER but... — read more 

Heard about all the layoffs ...just wondering if any are there for CSG team.

Right now, in my group it feels like a 'dog eats dog' scenario - everyone is anxious and people are dancing around their managers in hope they will get a preferential treatment once decisions are made. It's sad to see this happening, it was a fairly... — read more 

People are starting to be told if they are not meeting management expectations....although usually this is because they are not the "pets" or their job has been changed multiple times in a given period. I expect this is in preparation of who will be... — read more 

Notifications to people are will go on August 18. no one knows the exact number but i guess it will be announced in the August 17 conf call (word is some teams will get obliterated, but all teams have a quota). Add 5% to that as usual (bottom 10%... — read more