Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

That RM on his wrist though 😂 don’t hate the player hate the game

This place is just absolutely creatively bankrupt. Can’t wait for this to not sell.

90,000 people, countless layers of leadership, and somehow we’re still expecting “strategy” to translate into execution

This was G2's video resume to be CEO for an AI company

@dg Nah. Cisco is Frankenstein of Tech

We're gonna live in a world where the agents will have agency doing agentic things on the network. and Cisco is the world's largest startup!

Watch specific product and go to market strategy was mentioned?

I heard something about Cisco not being a networking company anymore, so what is Cisco at its core identity now?

The product idea seems like an interesting idea. But holy sh-t what a terrible way to interact with software. Sometimes I just wanna click a button! Not vibe code some prompt and hope the system doesn’t hallucinate.

Previous posters are right. Strategy at that level should be easily explainable in 5 minutes. It was a complete waste of time. The back slapping while laying people off is incredibly off putting.

G2's prpose is to eliminate American jobs. Thats why the hedge funds installed him. But he wants to imagine he is something different.

If you think ottherwise, please explain exactly how he has contributed and shown leadership. "Look at me!" is not leadership.

@b5 Right! Was this just practice for Cisco Live? What is the strategy? There is a huge divergence in what Jeetu talks about and where growth is coming from. We are making billions on the boxes, increasingly for hyperscaler. Meanwhile, there was nothing on the data center & infra strategy. While Cisco Cloud Control looks cool, what is the path to make this a billion $ product? When does it become meaningful revenue driver?

Thanks for the four hour AI intro and demo session. So what’s the strategy?

@OP
They should have made a sh-t emoji or a downthumbs, and have them show up on the screen like webex, it'd be all we see

Cisco Cloud Control is so cool. The team has delivered impossible stuff in such a short time. Jeetu is an inspiration. Our stock is going to 200 soon! We are in our Microsoft 2016-2020 phase

Have you ever seen an Yaris revving up its engine at a stop light ?
That is all this is :-)), a caricature

@ap Had the same qusetion !

one of the worst companies

Almost two hours in and I get that we now have a dashboard with a built in vibe coding agent to add more dashlets, silicon, silicon and more silicon, we remain an afterthought to nvidia and... did I miss anything?

So G2 is really planning to talk for 4 hours? With mandatory surveys in the end?

No cohesion, no familiarity, forever customisable. Sheesh!

That represents power draw in a rack... !?

Have these two clowns actually seen a rack?

Apps are not really apps. It just monitoring and analysis known data stuff. It’s basically just a dashboard creation tool anybody can use.

So... What is the point of Cisco IQ if you have Cisco Cloud Control?

‘We only give the first few customers a white glove experience, the rest get the Cisco experience’

The industry is being duped by AI.

Anything about Greece?

How the heck did this turn into a vibe coding demo?

This is a lot of word vomit..... I think this dude just likes to hear himself speak.

If a leader cannot clearly articulate the strategy within five minutes, the meeting is pointless. The same applies to us as sales meeting with customers, if we fail to capture their attention within those first five minutes, there is absolutely no chance of success.

Almost 30 mins in and no mention of a single product -- glad we are spending eveyones time on this.. Well Glad my agents are all still working i guess.....

At least he’s wearing a jacket instead of forcing us to watch him wear a shirt that’s 2x too small for 4 hours. Dude needs to hit the gym

@OP it's gonna be usual bs about renaming stuff. Now CCC

@OP that the guy has a huge ego, and we are supposed to be the groupies