Now I feel like I'm working for a company that's past its prime. Feels like we are constantly changing our message and our direction -- like we are lost, a boat adrift at sea. Layoffs are becoming the annual sacrificial offering to the shareholders... — read more 

By law, Cisco and other large companies have to make public their plans for job elimination. You will notice that Cisco has in the past posted all of their LRs. There are no mentions as of yet...and I believe the requirement is 30 days for 50 or more... — read more 

Let me give you a peek into the workings of an LR (Source: @IGXXwSC-1gdx ). About a 3 months in advance you start to see the warning signs. Backfills don't get approved, OpEx gets slashed, budget pressure ramps up. Some examples of budget pressure... — read more 

I retired after 40+ years in high tech and the last 20 at Cisco. I was never laid off although I faced many RIFs over 40 years with a number of companies. As a manager, I always told employees to make themselves as marketable as possible both... — read more 

The rumor about RTP shutting down/drastically downsizing has been around for a while. I wonder when Boxborough will be hit in the same way? Lots of empty space in the buildings there. Lots of land that was never used to build the total of 8 buildings... — read more 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/08/02/488421196/in-rio-u-s-men-s-basketball-will-stay-on-a-cruise-ship-the-silver-cloud How can people say layoffs are a part of life when management wastes money like this?

I keep seeing Aug 18th mentioned as the date of the earnings call. It is actually Aug 17th... — read more 

Don't let the balance sheet fool you. Cisco is poorer than they have ever been. With over 70,000 employees, dwindling margins on Hardware and over 90% of cash trapped overseas, Cisco has few options. Why do you think they are 'investing' in teaching... — read more 

Finally, I did... First as a contractor, then as a blue badge... I've worked with great teammates, and a few who were not team focused and inhibited growth. Some of these folks still remain - why, I don't know. I was drinking from the fire-hose as a... — read more 

Seems like a ton of anxiety and worry over potential job losses. I will give my best advice (whether you work at Cisco or not) Corporations are not your friend, parent or caregiver. it is a transaction, not a 'relationship'. You provide a service in... — read more 

A lot of Americans never understand you just don't piss away your earned W2 income (sweat income) on useless crap from Walmart and the likes. Money represents freedom. The dollars you earn from your W2 or 1099 if you are a contractor, are soldiers to... — read more 

If your experience is in IT per se (programmer, DB, business system analyst, etc.), I wouldn't recommend at all looking for a job in another big tech-related Company like Oracle, Dell, IBM, MS, etc., etc., because sooner or later it will be the same... — read more 

The reality is any hi-tech company needs to evolve its portfolio, to adapt process and transform its org structure. Cisco has a heritage in delivering HW, which will increasingly commoditise and as with other hi tech firms , it will need to... — read more 

Cisco is looking like a baseball/hockey/soccer/basketball/football team with a lot of old players. As a member of them, I am feeling like an old player that cannot get the long term contract offered by the team management. You always feel you are on... — read more 

Any idea about what date folks are gonna get notified in San Jose ?

Newsflash folks. Cisco is a corporation. A big, monstrous, soul-less corporation. Cisco don't care. Caring is not what Cisco does. Cisco exists to stay in business. It used to innovate. Now it gobbles up innovators and spits out the bones every... — read more 

What is the impact of this in India ? Is technical services being moved from Bangalore to Pune?

As he was getting ready to depart, JC was very explicit (on several occastions): LAYOFFS ARE THE NEW NORMAL! Get used to it, it'll happen over and over again. We are in an extremely competitive environment and we are being pressured from all sides... — read more 

Cisco has a severe problem. In 2014 we had the mother load of layoffs to make sure we didn't have to keep with this layoff strategy. In 2015 rumors ran rampant on the next round of layoffs but in 2015 Cisco targeted layoffs to keep in hush hush... — read more 

I was LR'd a few months ago after 16 years. Best thing that could have happened. I am in my 50's and was curious if it had to do with my age. In the separation package there was a whole section with a list of the positions eliminated and the ages of... — read more 

I am a grunt in the trenches and have been for 16 years with Cisco. Look at the stock price over the last 16 years, no freebies to retirement during my time. Not sure why anyone believes Cisco owes you anything when they've sent you a paycheck every... — read more 

Will Cisco Capital in SJ be affected in the layoff?

Dear Chuckie and the rest of the clowns at the top, I know you and Fran and everyone that's part of the"ELT" are reading these comments at this site. This is your transparent Pulse survey. You talk transparency. Well guess what, all the views and... — read more 

There have been many posts indicating that Cisco is targeting employees based on age. This is illegal. In California, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing DFEH is the state agency charged with enforcing California’s civil rights laws. The... — read more 

Are we expecting same 15-20% of layoffs?

This is a post from last year, August, the same story... Watch out for dates prior to RSU vesting Large layoff took place the week of August 10th 1 month before RSU vesting on 9/11- Kelly Kramer the CFO didn't want to pay out the vested shares so... — read more 

I've been told by someone that is giving a notice in Engineering it will be Aug 17-18. It is possible they will do Sales Notifications next week because of GSX. However, they don't like to surprise Wall Street. So I think it is unlikely they will do... — read more 

Interesting instructions about text formatting @EITBv7r - Check this out #formatting https://www.thelayoff.com/h/formatting

I was laid-off in February after a 2 week notice. 60 days of in lieu pay 60 days severance pay PTO converted into cash 4 months payment for COBRA coverage Received mid-year bonus b/c I was still an employee when Q2 closed And I'm still looking for a... — read more 

Notifications on that day. No further details about the package or which groups. Rumor is Cloud and UCS groups which are under Biri Singh are in the first round. Don't know about David's groups.

https://contently.com/strategist/2016/07/22/why-cisco-hiring-200-content-marketers/ After laying off 200 people. Karen looks quite progressive, doesn't she?

So the project I am working on just received an email announcing the names of 5 people being let go, I do not know if they are RED or BLUE but it is sad when you affect someone's life this way.

We have been instructed to LR 10-20% of our employees this time both red and blue badge. I have been helping my employees find new jobs at other companies it makes me sick to play this yearly hunger game. Wonder what they would do if none of us... — read more