#individualcontributor

What could lead to it? Will he fight or quit?

What tactics Cisco managers use before putting IC on PIP? PIP cause is very subjective.

Where should the line be drawn between collaboration and unofficial leadership responsibilities?

If an individual contributor is consistently asked to train new team members, mentor offshore colleagues, transfer domain knowledge, and guide technical decisions without any formal recognition, title, is that considered a normal expectation of the role?

How do others handle this? Do you continue taking on these responsibilities, or do you set boundaries and ask for the role and expectations to be formalized first?

If you’re a Band 6 people leader in the CXO, you’re impacted. About 90% of Band 5 is impacted and already informed on Monday.

At this rate, I don’t have much hope for individual contributors. I also don’t know what Tanya is going to do with her VP, Digital Channels title.
Good luck everyone

As part of re org, I noticed that some associates who were previously managers are now individual contributors. Was this a demotion or a lateral move? If it was a lateral move, does that mean their salary remained the same?

No news so far but folks are getting meetings from their manager/skip manager etc. Any VP IC - any layoff impact you faced?

Looking for honest input from folks who’ve been through this.

I recently moved into a new individual contributor (IC) role. The onboarding/training has been very limited, and I’m still working to understand expectations and what “good” looks like.

A few complicating factors:

The scope of the role turned out to be significantly broader than expected (wasn’t fully visible upfront).
Deliverables and success criteria are somewhat ambiguous.
My current manager is still getting up to speed on the role as well.

Given that I already passed this year’s ranking and landed above NSI:

How quickly can someone realistically be put on a PIP after moving into a new IC role?
Is there typically a ramp-up period in situations like this, or can it happen fairly quickly if performance isn’t there?
In practice, how much do unclear scope / limited training factor into these decisions?

If you do not believe that layoffs are coming, then just scroll past.. do not have to respond it saying fake news..

I want to hear from someone here if anyone has first hand info on layoffs.. which orgs are being targeted and is it targeting individual contributors or managers or evenly distributed

I’ve seen some comments about older Associates being offered a buyout package. Is that really a thing? I’m 61 and wondering if they might approach me as I don’t think another VBO is in the picture.

What is the typical bonuses for those that are IC3 ?

As part of flattening the organization, Managers and Senior Managers don’t have duties of people management. Directors are having them now. And thus they are now strictly technical. Do Managers and Senior Managers have to contribute now? In other words, do they now have to work on tasks like others on the team?

Seen the posts about call centers and managers. But confirming here that senior ICs from Engineering are getting the emails too. Good luck out there.

Why fire individual contributors- layers of managers is what needs trimming in finance, it’s seems a a lot of one sr manager has 4 managers reporting to them who have 1-2 employees each. A lot of “management” of the few doing work -

does anyone have the scoop on how CDF placements will impact individual contributors? assuming this won’t affect pay grade and IC’s will simply be categorized based on role and pay grade. seems to be more of a naming exercise.

If I was an individual contributor it might be easier to focus on the work by day while preparing a job search at night. But I have direct reports looking to me for clarity, people who are worried and hoping for answers, raises, and promotions. Meantime all I know comes from the news and these boards. I don’t understand the rationale behind leaking layoff targets to the press (again) and being asked (again) to carry on as normal for the next two months while trust erodes.