More and more people have stopped giving a damn and it’s obvious...

How many impacted employees do we think will be announced on the May earnings? I have a feeling it will be on par or larger than last quarters. You can't spend 28 billion and keep everything the same.

As an experienced professional with multiple CCIEs and many years in the industry, I'm concerned about the quality of hiring and management decisions being made in our region. Our one-on-one meetings with the manager seem to lack focus on... — read more 

So many companies are posting jobs but they're not actively hiring. Does anybody know why this is happening?

Is a Sr Manager is a leadership role, then what are the roles sr director and above? Sr Manager is entry-level manager role and not a leadership role. For that matter, anyone can call himself as a leader irrespective of his title.

Expecting a sales kick-off this year or is there too much kicking-out to sort through before hand?

Do people get a pat on the back if they post some of the propagandistic drivel I've been reading on LinkedIn lately? It's beyond pathetic. If it were only HR folks, I'd understand. But it's not. Reading it, people from outside would get a completely... — read more 

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1seDLhmb

Unable to handle the work pressure along with few personal issues. Is there a Cisco policy for short term leave, as I don't want to quit just need few months to reset.

On what basis directors in CX and PX are spared with all restructuring and redundancy Cisco should have optimized by firing the engineering managers and directors. They have been running as their kingdoms. Though the split and merge happens why Cisco... — read more 

Cisco employees are REQUIRED to take 4 days of PTO between July 1-5. PTO will be auto loaded in workday next week.

ASA What kind of company would even use Cisco ASA? No wonder you been hacked

Chuck been on the call for the first 15 minutes rubbing it in everyone's face about all of the travel he is doing, meeting the pope, etc. yet we won't let our sellers travel to their customers to sell business...this ELT is so egotistical it is... — read more 

God, Chuck is not inspiring at all. The opposite in fact. You’d think they could at least hire someone with charisma for the job.

Has anyone heard of increase in PIPs recently? I have heard this is happening more often with a May 15th deadline for “voluntary separation”. Is that true?

Cisco's weekend pay rate of $500 lags behind competitors like Palo Alto, which pays $1200, making it hard to understand why this company hasn't adjusted its compensation to match industry standards...

He is being put on notice period for creating politics and doing visible discrimination and favoring his own old gang. Complaint was raised by a senior engineer to SVP cc’ing other big shots. Wake up guys

Heavily loafed and one useless box Cisco should bring new leadership to change nexus 9k products

Did anyone get their RSU award this cycle? Or is it post earnings?

I saw a brutal but honest (and completely by the book) review the other day and when I was looking at Glassdoor again today, it's gone. I know that there's a note on the front page that companies can't delete stuff from there, but it seems to me that... — read more 

Heard CX is on a hiring freeze with the caveat that apparently each region has the right to change that…find that odd. Also heard V2MAMA is officially gone Any other rumors worth discussing??

I am very curious what these ELT trip achieve They all speak about platform, AI, security Concepts which are important but no one talks about execution Anyway with pressure for numbers hope she sees the big 5

What are the Q3 earnings expectations? With splunk acquisition and money committed to LRs around 800mil, I cannot expect a positive earnings. Are we looking at layoffs announcements the day of or after ?

Is Cisco FSO truely working at the capacity the marketing is leading us to believe or is there some smoke and mirrors happening? Hearing of some very large enterprise customers being supplied extra Cisco engineering resources as it’s not meeting... — read more 

They announced layoffs in Nov 2022. Those layoffs kept happening company wide since May 2023. They claimed this was part of the the same LR announced in Nov 2023. Then, few months later, they announced LR again after Q4 and laid people off. That went... — read more 

I found another IT job. It’s a significant downgrade, and a 53% pay cut but it’s better than zero. I had four rounds of interviews including two panel interviews. I will basically be doing sys admin except for the cloud and everything no one else... — read more 

Anyone get their lump sum yet?

Poor quality Poor leadership

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/lacework-last-valued-8-3b-175111866.html

and other serious IC get a short notice and out the door... Is that fair?

Cisco has engaged McKinsey to map out overlaps between Splunk and existing Cisco presence among customer bases. Once done, chop is to come. Since Splunk employees cannot be fired within 3 years, it will be the good old Cisco folks to make way and get... — read more 

Rachel Barger announced she is leaving Cisco

https://gbhackers.com/cisco-hypershield-ai/amp/&

https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-unveils-ai-native-enterprise-security-solution-hypershield/amp/ Woah

I’m wondering if anyone out there knows what the profile was of the Feb 15 layoffs. I’ve heard different targets mentioned here like: employees in specific cities/states that are expensive certain grade levels were they targeting a certain... — read more 

Discuss.

Time to go home and relax until you find new rodeo. Stop sc--wing up CSCO!

I received a promising offer, but once I looked into the company's background, I saw it had layoffs a few months ago. It's the only issue I've found so far. All other aspects work for me, including the pay and company culture. I can't decide what to... — read more