Due to AI ML
ciena wants get rid of management positions including fellow, principal engineers , management
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@nna once they tasted blood, they will not stop. Spineless upper management that was brought from outside and implanted as trojan horse does not help either.
I was let go recently i didnt expect it. i thought the rounds were done. never enough for them
After Mass Layoffs, Ciena’s “New Jobs” Are in India
Just one day after boasting about record quarterly earnings and simultaneously laying off hundreds of employees, Ciena’s hiring boards tell the rest of the story.
Every new posting for software development roles is now located in India. U.S. and Canadian workers — many of whom were just shown the door — are finding that their jobs aren’t being “eliminated” at all. They’re being offshored.
It’s a gut-wrenching twist: employees laid off under the guise of “tariff pressures” and “margin management” now watch as their positions are quietly re-posted overseas. For the company’s leadership, it’s cheaper labor. For the employees who gave years of their careers, it’s a slap in the face.
The optics are brutal. On one hand, Ciena tells investors it’s protecting profitability. On the other, it’s sending a message to its workforce: your loyalty and skill are expendable if someone, somewhere, will do it cheaper.
This isn’t about tariffs. It isn’t about margins. It’s about a company that made a cold calculation: cut higher-paid North American jobs, replace them abroad, and hope the headlines focus only on revenue.
For shareholders, the math may look good on paper. For employees, communities, and the innovation culture Ciena claims to champion, it looks like something else entirely: corporate betrayal in plain sight.
Ciena Cites Stellar Earnings While Laying Off Hundreds
Ciena Corporation (NYSE: CIEN) stood before investors today touting “stellar” fiscal Q3 2025 results — revenue soaring to about $1.17 billion, up more than 24% year-over-year, with earnings per share near $0.53. Wall Street cheered the revenue growth.
At the exact same time, inside the company, reality was far darker. Hundreds of employees were laid off today, a decision delivered bluntly in a Zoom meeting. Craig Williams told staff the cuts were tied to tariffs and margin pressure, as if that explained why a company reporting record revenue needed to gut its workforce.
The move landed like a gut punch. People who built the products that fueled this “stellar” quarter were discarded in the same breath their labor was celebrated to shareholders. The message was clear: Wall Street wins, workers lose.
Ciena’s leadership wants the headlines to trumpet revenue growth and efficiency. But for those left jobless today, it’s a betrayal. Laying off hundreds of people on the very day you boast about billion-dollar sales isn’t “strategy” — it’s corporate cruelty dressed up in investor-friendly language.
Employees aren’t blind. They see the contradiction, they feel the human cost, and they know the story behind the numbers. “Margins” and “tariffs” are convenient scapegoats, but the truth is simpler: Ciena chose to sacrifice people to pad profitability.
For a company that prides itself on innovation and global leadership, today’s actions paint a different picture — one of executives celebrating growth while tossing aside the very workforce that made it possible.
Me too!
It happened but I don't know how many. I was let go...
Is it only SJC or across all locations
Tomorrow.
Ohhh
When will it happen ?