Can’t wait to see how Cisco will flourish after these thoughtful and visionary cuts. I can bet that they carefully assessed every employee, their capacity and value, with clear goals and ideas for future innovation, development and market positioning... — read more 

This was a major mobility outage effecting 71,000+ customers with cisco gear. Poor management and taking shortcut is responsible and Directors and above in SP are totally incompetent and should be immediately fired!!!

What concerns is this took so many years to figure her incompetence. Within a year of joining, MM fired every one working in leadership at CX and TAC. This way there was no threat to her position and power! She then brought her loyal lieutenants... — read more 

Lost 30 billion in market cap yesterday. Concern for our industry?

Love or hate MPLS, they were spun out and in repeatedly creating billion dollar Business Units. Cisco wanted to be the best in the world for the world. Chamber’s had birthday meetings. Cisco strived to he the human network, and a family. Chambers... — read more 

Based on what Chucky been lying about firing V2MOMMA and csco hotair on AI, government can remove CSCO from trading base on misleading information to public.

She did not quit, she got fired and got a massive severance

It cost Cisco about $33 millions to remove her position. ELT just lied to their OWN employees while telling the truth to the government. Where is the transparency folks? Shame on you. Per U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission government... — read more 

Have to imagine that duplicate role will be eliminated when Splunk closes. Is that still considered a layoff?

Partners make recommendations, Customers making final decisions. Truth is current market condition is on ABC.

Per the 10-Q page 77: On February 16, 2024, as part of organizational changes with respect to Cisco’s executive leadership team, Cisco informed Maria Martinez, Cisco’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (“COO”), that the COO... — read more 

So according to some, CR is about to make another BIG decision. With MM's departure could he be thinking of giving all services to partners? Moving all of CX to regional partners?

Marc Holloman is a real good leader in TAC. I never saw any VP level leader was showing new hires around campus and introduced. Also, I remember he was greeting us at movie nights at the cinema. I no longer work for Cisco anymore, but I do hope... — read more 

I don't work for Cisco, but I have a vested interest in the company. I see so many job titles that have no real meaning. So, I seek out what they do on linkedin. Again, I see no real job skills or tasks in their profiles. Interesting, very few of... — read more 

The exit day is April 15. You guys need to check her profile on the 14th and 16th to see if the drops out on this day.

Tell the forum about your experience using PTO up to -40 hours… do you experience heavy scrutiny? With all the layoffs doesn’t Cisco want time off the liability sheet

I got laid off on 15 Feb with termination date 15 April. I want to get my severance package now and leave but the letter says I can't sign the WT document before termination date. HR saying I must wait until termination date. Anyone else facing that?... — read more 

Does Cisco still have telephony and collaboration? What products Cisco have come up with lately? I have not heard anything new from this group for years.

For all of you that comment about how bad the ELT is. How would you fix the company? No reason to talk about getting rid of the ELT and who needs to be gone from the ELT we know your thoughts on that but how do you fix Cisco? I appreciated the one... — read more 

Can anybody confirm that we are not actually done for now? Hearing that it will continue for some time.

There have been too many inefficient hires into the ELT - after Maria others need to leave and their work load needs to be shared among the others. This company needs an activist board - we seem to have a sleeping board with an ineffective ceo. — read more 

Why is Fran needed to run Policy and Purpose for Cisco? All I see her need is for HR - end of story. John Chambers used to manage policy leaders himself. Which makes me wonder what Chuck actually does now that he is also remote in Georgia. The... — read more 

Remember Chucky hired Maria. He's firing Maria to save his job Looks like Chucky does not want to get out of Cisco anytime soon

T is Maria’s boy. Chuck pulled him out to find out where the bodies are buried. T hasn’t done sh!t. He’s Maria’s protege, if Chuck puts T in charge, the toxic culture will continue. Don’t keep him Chuck!

Rumor mill say the Splunk CEO is taking over. Can anyone confirm this ?

Rumor spreading that with Splunk deal closing sooner than originally announced that Chuck will depart at the end of July and hand over the shop to Splunk CEO at the beginning of FY25

https://www.crn.com/news/networking/2024/cisco-coo-maria-martinez-suddenly-departs-in-wake-of-widespread-layoffs

Cisco will continue laying off experienced workers and hire many unqualified workers with less pay. Good splunkers will jump ship around the time Cisco closed buyout. Rest of splunkers would be deadbeats going to attach to Cisco.

Met someone higher up in the chain. They told me Splunk has 8000 employees and Cisco is planning a 2 phase layoff (4000 done laat week) and another one will happen next yr same timish. Cisco will absorb 8000 Splunk folks with $4B extra revenue... — read more 

I can't decide what's sadder: the amount of conspiracy theories and misogynistic vitriol on this page or the fact that so many unhappy people stay. If you are unhappy, leave. It's really that simple. You will get a ton of free time back that you now... — read more 

As Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at CISCO SYSTEMS, INC., Maria Martinez made $15,100,025 in total compensation. Of this total $869,231 was received as a salary, $2,411,505 was received as a bonus, $0 was received in stock... — read more 

is layoff in US fully done? or notifications are still going out this week

What am I missing? Seems like they aren’t doing that well on their own, and it’s just a minor product play for us. But they make it sound like it’s the second coming.

Embarrassing.

Security growing 3% y/y speaks by itself. Please have him join Maria and leave for everyone's sake.

Fire Cisco board for directors. Absolute waste of money to pay these people. Start fresh. MM firing was a step in right direction.

After close

This has been HILARIOUS so far........would love to hear others thoughts.

Something to the effect of the “inclusiveness” of specific groups. What criteria are they using?

WOW - what a performance. I can't believe how he delivered that message re MM. I'm sure as soon as the board can replace him, while he will never need the income, he could get work in Hollywood.