Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

How is SBG doing?

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Is Secure Network Analytics (nee Stealthwatch) still a thing?

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Post ID: @1qd+1jt1d6kg0

the day i see cisco join nortel will be a hapoy day for many.

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Post ID: @sb+1jt1d6kg0

J2 is a thief his posts and interviews are scripted saying nothing innovative. Can his bald head

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Post ID: @rd+1jt1d6kg0

You have a product guy - surrounded by 10VPs Go imagine. And on the engineering side - let me not even get started

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Post ID: @qz+1jt1d6kg0

What is SBG doing? Playing catching up to be in the race. At least that’s what leadership has been saying for half a decade.

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Post ID: @qy+1jt1d6kg0
SR VP, VP-VP, Sr Mgr, Mgr

you forgot Sr DIR, DIR :-)

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Post ID: @kz+1jt1d6kg0

Honestly getting rid of Sr VP and Sr managers would make the most sense. As of now the structure goes SR VP, VP-VP, Sr Mgr, Mgr. At least two layers gone right there. Cut those layers across all geo’s and verticals and watch the magic start!

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Post ID: @kj+1jt1d6kg0

At least the stock price will go up a penny after the LR, lol

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Post ID: @k7+1jt1d6kg0
people gather together to accomplish so little

what does that mean? too many useless employees ? how they got there.

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Post ID: @jf+1jt1d6kg0

many decades in this industry, been at great/good/bad/disaster companies

never have I witnessed more people gather together to accomplish so little as I have witnessed in SBG

this has been the case for many years and on multiple teams

leadership is complicit and/or has simply given up

at this point I think you just hire hundreds of people on the sly overseas and have the study and learn the code unbeknownst to SBG staff in North America...once the overseas folks have figured it out, you just cut the whole operation over. you'll still end up with low performance but for 20% of the cost

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Post ID: @j1+1jt1d6kg0

It’s mostly a sweatshop now.

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Post ID: @fa+1jt1d6kg0

Besides the usual bigotry, nepotism, and classic incompetence by our directors and VP, we basically had "zoom all over again" by convincing the actual hard workings brains to quit and form a competing product in datacenter AI security, so we're looking pretty foolish now that the one good AI product we started is now owned by our competitors. Then there's Zscaler eating our lunch, and Arista and MSFT scooping up the little remaining talent. Most engineers are hedging bets on whether or not the LR packages will be reduced and they should look for a new job, or just keep fa----g around until they're LR'ed and replaced with cheap labor. Business as usual: setting the benchmark for laziness and incompetence at scale, baby.

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Post ID: @ex+1jt1d6kg0

SBG is what you get when a hardware company thinks software and subscription revenue is "easy"

buybacks are evil but CSCO would be in the $90s if all the $$$ plowed into SBG had just been redirected to buying back their own stock

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Post ID: @ef+1jt1d6kg0

Sinking Business Group

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Post ID: @ea+1jt1d6kg0

whats SBG?!?

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Post ID: @dd+1jt1d6kg0

"If you are in the US and part of SBG this is a great time to look for other opportunities. You have been warned."

Maybe it is better to wait to get laid off and get the package.

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Post ID: @bx+1jt1d6kg0

If you are in the US and part of SBG this is a great time to look for other opportunities. You have been warned.

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Post ID: @b9+1jt1d6kg0

GSSO on course for a 20% impact.

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Post ID: @b8+1jt1d6kg0

Every GEO expected to be hit. Some missing by -10% or more.

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Post ID: @at+1jt1d6kg0

Hopefully DB will be fired!

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Post ID: @a2+1jt1d6kg0

More layoffs are coming to SBG.

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