Post your experiences in this thread: Working at Cisco as a Red Badge!
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It's been hit and miss. I joined Cisco as a red badge around this time last year. I was laid off at the end of Q4 and I'm coming back as a red badge in a different role just this month. Red badges get cut and come back all the time. The uncertainty of whether you'll have a job at any given moment is a deal breaker for some. Red badges generally get a higher base salary than blue, but almost no benefits and can be cut at any time. Conversions were rare in my org, there were reds that were there for 10 years as red badges. It seems like the easiest way to get blue is to apply for those roles directly rather than waiting for a conversion if you value that.
Red badge here, i was in for 9 months until reorg in Q4 and i was let go.
The red badge dont need a LR cycle to be impacted, that's why they are not impacted so much when LR comes. My team were pretty shorthanded last year. The manager brings 3 red badges in Sep. Nice person and two of them are pretty good actually. All of them are asked to let go in Feb due to budget issue, in fact we are all pretty loaded and they are in the middle of some features. Although manager promised just a temporary thing and will get them back once he can get approval. In the end, only one of them came back as blue badge (not sure but I overheard he might also got a pay cut).
What I have seen throughout the LR activities is that red badges are generally impacted less than blue, for a couple of reasons. When blue badges are let go, the business still has needs that need to be met, so red badges are a good bridge strategy. When times are good, red badges are brought in to meet the surge demand. The uncertainty of a red badge employee's term, and the generally lower benefits they earn, is the tradeoff. There are some really good red badges at Cisco (there is a decent rate of conversion for them as well), and of course there are some not so good ones. I think the quality issue belongs to the red badge firms. The big box firms (multi-billion, India-based) tend to have lower quality resources, in my opinion.
Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!
Red badges are low caste at Cisco. Lowest of the low.
You will be the first let go on a LR
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