What a coincidence. Check the career pages, it says that due to an upgrade the open jobs can’t be shown. Until Nov 13. When earnings will be published. Big LR and hiring freeze incoming

Cisco was mentioned : https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2025-10-31/major-market-top-despite-record-ai-rally-strategist-warns

In the past 2 years Prabhat Singh had lead the group to sink. He is not allowed to hire. Everyone is leaving him. Teams have shrunk by 50% because people we're unhappy. He expects people to work on the weekends so outages will happen on Saturday and... — read more 

to those in california, is it a good idea to file for unemployment benefit?

AI Ambassador does what?

Anyone else seeing what’s happening in GVSE right now? From what I’m hearing, any new roles are being restricted to grade 7/8s. Combine that with all the automation initiatives being pushed on us (auto discounts, auto del reg approvals, auto emails... — read more 

My manager said he cannot afford to lose anyone on his team. No more reqs in the near future and it doesn't look good to have less than eight reports.

https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-ends-automatic-extension-of-employment-authorization

Not like anyone would know if you did lol

Been giving it serious thought, as I have been job searching and finding little movement or activity from applying, agency recruiters, etc. It might be due to now in Q4 and "circle back season", but I wonder if I should use this time to explore other... — read more 

Politics over work Preferences over people Too much favorism Such mind set allowed to grow Arista All DC leaders should be fired in next layoff

It sounds like the VP gave some pretty blunt advice regarding career progression for first-level managers. If the manager doesn't transition to an IC, they might be at risk of getting a pink slip

Just for kicks I looked at the Cisco jobs site. There are zero openings anywhere. Is the tool broken or did they eliminate all hiring?

https://www.thelayoff.com/arista-networks

If layoff notices go out in Nov, does that mean layoff date falls in 2025 or January of 2026? For the severance check, will there be a little tax reduction in 2026 due to higher standard deductions and inflation-adjusted tax brackets?

How does this affect Cisco ? https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/nvidia-nokia-ai.html

If you follow Cisco LR blue print over many quarters, notifications are always next day to the earning call, which is Wednesday, Nov 12. Earnings Nov 12 Notifications Nov 13, Exit date Jan 13. Collect your severance and retire happy.

Unfortunately, 30k employees just lost their job today at Amazon. We don't know how many Cisco will let go next month due to AI but definitely less than 7k globally.

Recent Layoff Announcements (from the Kobiessi Letter): UPS: 48,000 employees Amazon: Up to 30,000 employees Intel: 24,000 employees Nestle: 16,000 employees Accenture: 11,000 employees Ford: 11,000 employees Novo Nordisk: 9,000... — read more 

How will Cisco's partnership with Nvidia be affected by Nvidia investment in Nokia? https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nvidia-make-1-billion-investment-finlands-nokia-2025-10-28/

I lost all my gains from working out and became fat working day and night for this company. Now I don’t even complete my tasks and management is micro managing me/constantly asking me to present things about AI to the team. I don’t hang out with... — read more 

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/cisco-layoffs-2025-after-microsoft-and-intel-in-its-bay-area-office-here-are-the-departments-affected/articleshow/123456681.cms?from=mdr

Reported in this mornings News & Observer -- campus to be completely vacated by March 2026. The land has been sold to data center developers.

Hold my overnighted Prime beer, 30k Damn https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/10/27/amazon-layoffs-job-cuts/86934722007/#

Job cuts will affect HR, devices, services, operations CEO Jassy aims to reduce bureaucracy, increase AI use https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-targets-many-30000-corporate-job-cuts-sources-say-2025-10-27/

In the "AI Ponzi Flywheel" circulates money in a self-reinforcing loop which Cisco is a part of. This artificially inflates valuations without any broad external revenue First, Nvidia and AMD inject low-cost financing directly into OpenAI (like... — read more 

Goodbye job market.

This shouldn’t be something to feel good about but it makes me happy. My engineering manager from about 21 years ago made me work my a-s off with the promise is a promotion and then he told me I didn’t have what it takes. Anyway I left and got... — read more 

All products consolidated under CPO office , but the only product growing is the CPO's overhead - marketing, planning biz dev, PR while engineering shrinks

I am seeing all sort of initiatives along this line, I am not sure if it is just managers trying to show how much they align with the latest buzzwords or it is a genuine and desperate search for ideas to make us competitive in this field. It does... — read more 

ain't nobody buying AI podz, AI Canvas, AI defence, AI Webex ai canvas is a year too late and full of nasty (soul crushing) security flaws and bugs ai podz are crazy expensive for a rack server + gpu ai defence is yet another promising acquisition... — read more 

When are we going to receive our severance pay? They said it would be within two weeks of the exit date which was last Monday.

Trying to play in AI and Quantum Computing with no credidibility.

Be prepared

Overheard in office Managers and directors are preparing list Any other info

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/meta-plans-to-cut-600-jobs-in-its-ai-superintelligence-labs-6717116

Continuous engineering cuts (yeah opex cuts) . But don't worry, the 'CPO office overhead is still comfortably expanding

Another reorganization — new names, the same long-entrenched inept leadership. No real changes. No products. Quality keeps sliding while the company waits for someone — anyone — to make sense of AI, since the so-called AI teams clearly... — read more 

just asking.. and if did, do you have to relocate or etc/etc/ , the more details, the better, like location, full time or part time, contractor or permanent, government or private, if government, which branch.. I see many peers moving to CA for... — read more