Can anyone share what it looks like in Canada?

Lots of critical engineers on critical location are leaving, it is the biggest stupid lay off I have ever seen...

Tomorrow is the "Cisco for me" day, as a red badge so far have not received any termination notice, how is every red badge doing today, wish everyone the best!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/matleta_cisco-fired-4000-people-this-morning-the-share-7460706699306332162-lA9l

Any insights?

Don’t get angry. Understand whatever amazing skills you have are not transferrable Example- why would Nvidia, Anthropic, OpenAI, etc. hire you? Using AI is building AI. Don’t be confused here.

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Started here not even half a year ago. Put in the work, learned the systems, made an effort. Now I'm being kicked out with people who've been here for years. What was even the point of hiring me?

How many employees are left?

"The Royal Scam"; an album title from early Steely Dan, that is fitting for today's announcement.

Clearly, AI is going to do all the human empathy and communication work of humans...

If there were multiple people impacted in the group there is a high probability that more will be targeted in August. We lost three good members and more than likely this group and will be impacted soon. MIGs.

There's nothing I hate more than when layoffs start on Tuesday and then stretch out throughout the entire week. Everything being done in a single day is much better on my nerves.

Just wait until the AI bubble bursts and companies realize it can’t do half the things they expected it to do, and that in a lot of cases it’s actually slowing people down instead of helping. I don’t know if this leadership is capable of that kind of... — read more 

Aren't you glad you stayed, to see stock soar; and now get LR'd Enjoy!

2 teammates are impacted through

Make of that what you will, but it’s getting harder not to notice certain patterns.

I have 1:1 in the afternoon, am I safe ?

can confirm that LR hit Meraki as well. not sure of scale. but at least one sr mgr I know just got slack profile deactivated. this could just be the start and more coming in the later waves.

Gotta love how these companies do layoffs. No one tells you the notification timeline or process to determine whether safe or not So glad not a new hire or a person with 30 years to work

Today is a reminder that job cuts do not just happen to struggling employees or people doing the bare minimum. Some of the smartest and most respected people I know here were affected too, including people with years of experience and records most... — read more 

I also suggest that maybe everyone below grade 8 should simply not work for a week, everyone call in sick a sick out is what is needed to wake them up.

I'm 63 and was told it had nothing to do with performance, so curious if its worth hiring a lawyer to review the package?

Any managers in EU, please weigh in whether you know the dates when the notification goes out.

Long rumored and finally here. Campus to be sold to data center developers

For the ones being affected by the LR, are they making it immediate, or did they give you a near future end date? i remember for some of the previous layofss they gave a long notice before the end date; also people from my team got layed off and they... — read more 

I felt down for about five minutes. Then I started looking forward to my first good weekend in God knows how long, and then to having this forsaken place in the rearview mirror. I know I'll have a hard time finding another job, but I'm going to enjoy... — read more 

4 places you want to be…

Is this one of the rare situation where we can already know that if we didn't get a notification, we're safe?

"With this, we are making changes today that will result in the reduction of our overall workforce in Q4 by fewer than 4,000 jobs, representing less than 5 percent of our total employee base." Basically, he's saying it's just 4k jobs, no biggie. He... — read more 

I have no idea how we're supposed to get anything done.