In another major leadership shakeup for Cisco, Gary Steele, the tech giant's president of go-to-market, is leaving the company in the... — read more 

Central MISSED PLAN AGAIN. Maybe Central avp should not defund events so he can use budget to go to London to see his favorite team. Most everyone else made plan. Cisco exceeded plan. Something wrong here. Time for his LR.

Get back to work. No LR this time till July. Everything's dandy and fantastic. I love Cisco. Hiring freeze has been unfrozen. Put in your application if you're on the outside. High 5 'n cheers everybody.

Smart CEO

Yeah, so much for our "Man of Steele"

Let's not be naive abiutit Last time they were really pi---d off about leaks regarding all these It was expected that this time they will be a lot more cautious but do not be naive to believe it is not happening. We all know that the splu kers will... — read more 

Quite so far not heard anything

This is a Manufactured Crisis so Corporations can get richer in a few ways: 1. Stock buybacks - public companies make billions on that without even needing to come up with new products. 2. Further increasing profit margins by reducing payroll costs... — read more 

Find time to expand your skills, take advantage of any training Cisco offers, and look for other ways to strengthen your resume - all on Cisco’s time. Hard work doesn’t pay off here, so stop wasting energy trying to impress a manager who will only... — read more 

Anyone think Cisco will ever offer the Early Retirement option again??

Is this a thing around here, or is my senior manager a mo--n? Just found (from this person's mouth, not rumor) when we got our goals for H1 this person argued UP the food chain that it was too small and needed to be higher! Arguing for your team to... — read more 

I have a few questions regarding layoffs at Cisco: If we are laid off but receive a job offer before the end of the notification period, do we still get severance? If we are laid off, the notification period ends, we receive severance, and then a... — read more 

For a layoff website this place is awfully quiet for one of the likeliest layoff weeks in a while. What do you ppl know that i dont?

It's going up because everyone is expecting another positive earnings report next week. There will be NO Layoffs despite the common belief. wouldn't expect any til FY26 at the earliest. I know you negative nancys will be mad but it is what it is... — read more 

Hi Team, it‘s Chuck here. Thanks for all you do here on this board, it means a lot to me and the ELT. Just wanted to give you a heads up as we‘re moving into a critical week with earnings and Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam. First of all, Jeetu will... — read more 

I am in DC Pls work hard

Just more BS from that S-b in building 2 in SJ. Yeah you know who you are MF.

What is SBG actually doing? AI defense WTF? nobody is seeing Cisco as a security vendor… and competitors like PANW or ZSCALER are not seeing Cisco as competition ?!

Exact timeline will depend on earnings and sales/services meeting the targets.

I recently saw on LinkedIn that the same role I’m in is being offered for $20K more than what I’m making now. Has anyone left and came back for more money?

What software gets added to login when on list and has it been added already for this LR

Smart move to acquire Splunk as it will future proof Cisco against tariffs and Chinese counterfeiters. It’s all in the details if you know where to look.

how much of Cisco's supply chain is Canada, Mexico and China? 25% tariffs on a Cisco Switch made in Mexico is gonna hurt. Retailitory tariffs are also gonna hurt. ouch

There are around 4000 + employees work for Cisco in China, and big LR happened in last September, rumor said Cisco would shut down some sites or even exist China market (Taiwan excluded). With the enforcement of Huawei deployment and security... — read more 

I've been here a long time Have heard about the stuff we've done at BoA forever and have seen it put on a pedestal to replicate. I've also learned we have lost our pants on that deal. Have been in the conversations where we've made good and also... — read more 

I just came back from the future. Important updates: No Feb 12 layoff. CR resigned in Jan 2026. New CEO: J2. Stock down to 12 Trump Dollars. Juniper bought us in 2027. Maria joined Juniper soon after.

They state clearly they don't care about skills or experience. All they care about is if you kiss their fat behinds: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cisco-top-exec-amazon-andy-090300655.html Sold all 3,000 shares of my Cisco stock today and put it... — read more 

cisco’s elt decided to blow $28 billion on splunk right before a downturn but don’t worry, they’ll be fine... (splunk will be, in hindsight, the aquisition that ki-led cisco)... and yet... splunk was a fine company with good products, but now cisco... — read more 

The BU I work in at Cisco is being slowly replaced by Infosys contractors in India. It is a slow, but certain, death. The worst part is leadership will not tell us how long we have left.