Any other teams just kind of hitting a wall? No one on my team is really motivated, and I think everyone is just burnt out. No hiring, but layoffs and zero company loyalty will quickly destroy whatever pieces are left of this place.
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Cisco doesn't reward high performers which leads to apathy and attrition.
Cisco is great for those on retirement countdown, those good at BS or PPT but with no actual marketable skills or those awaiting a LR package, but not good for early-in-career types. Why? Other than the diminishing number of Cisco die-hard customers no one listens to Cisco talk about AI, cloud, security or many other key concerns in today's IT landscape. No matter how much Cisco kool-aid they ask you to drink, networking is a commodity these days. Are power distribution, Ethernet cabling or alarm systems on the CxO radar? No, they are commodity issues - expected to work but not strategic. In this era of cheap bandwidth Cisco's "innovation" is inconsequential and many companies can compete in Cisco's markets that at one time Cisco had a 90% share. No more. Msoft, Palo Alto, MIST and others completely outsold Cisco focusing on AI and the application and interaction with it. When the news media talk about "technology' Cisco is hardly ever mentioned. That's with good reason. The ELT starting with JC let this happen and are directly responsible. They milked the existing product cash cows and never drove the products forward anywhere near enough.
Will Cisco survive? Sure. But it will be an increasing complex sales message in order to try and differentiate (which it never will) , steadily declining revenues, bigger sales targets, more admin, greater confusion, fewer resources, poorer quality. All these are soul and morale destroying to employees. A bleak outlook for a once great company. A dead end career.
@cy underperformers get paychecks while the competent people in Cisco get a “surprise! More responsibility!” Raise.
@cy I agree. Within the industry, Cisco folks are seen as lazy underperformers. I had trouble to get my current job due to Cisco‘s „fame“ for its underperformers. They openly raised this concern during my interview process.
We are all riding in the same clown car.
Cisco is well understood to be a place for underperformers to get a paycheck.
So why are you surprised that your team is full of underperformers getting a paycheck?
It runs deep...many of my coworkers hail from similar companies...IBM, Symantec, VMWare, Mcafee...they just drift from one D-list/phone-it-in company to another.
For older workers, who cares right? Just cash the checks. For younger workers...you are ki-ling your career wasting away at Cisco.
ELT is want you to train the internal AI to do your job so they can fire you. simple as that.
They pride themselfs on it and slap each other back when you dumtards actually do it.
They call themself leader
If you remember the fish rots from the head down then you understand why almost all the leadership is rotten.
Make sure you use our internal AI tools to do your job, though! Nothing nefarious about that!
This is exactly the case on my team.
Nothing is getting better and the focus is on 2 things regardless of the rhetoric from the top:
- Doing things for Free (no spending on anything operations or development related)
- Doing things for cheaper ( If there is a cost to anything how do we do it cheaper)
Mean while we continue to line the pockets of our C Suite team while they peddle AI Products that for my own searching for them internally don't actually exist.
If you're in the DC product marketing team, say no more. The leader is a disaster.