I've been at Cisco a long time, and I have never seen such a collective sense of defeat across the company in my career. It feels like everyone collectively gave up, myself included.
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@1fhm+1un1o5Ew,
Your APIs go down that much? Who’s running your infrastructure?
yeah, this is weird situation here in general, a lot of outdated services/modules, half of my team - they don't care at all and another half just working like crazy with overtimes and weekends like there is no layoff at all. Personally, I'm trying to keep some balance in-between but I already started my search for my next adventure after 1.5 years here at cisco its just enough for me.
My manager thinks we all should work as normal. Meanwhile all he does is attend meetings , moan how busy he is and ask for updates. What a jerk
im trying to chill till 16th but my boss wants constant updates and others on the team are putting meetings on my calendar left and right, almost being frantic , my thought is you are either on the list or youre not, and why ki-l yourself right now for a company who doesnt care if you are here or not.
I am working just as hard as I did before.
What’s wrong with you people?
Try being self employed like my dad the plumber and then cry 😿 to me.
Pick yourself up and stop moaning.
Everyone on my team has mostly said they don't even know what to work on until the 16th
@1yni+1un1o5Ew Your APIs go down that much? Who’s running your infrastructure?
Everything woke turns to sh*t
Our Director and Managers told us to prioritize ourselves until we find out, so I'm doing the absolute bear minimum at this point and not starting any new projects.
I think Cisco is going to feel the productivity hit in a major way.
I'm working: customer escalations, APIs down and etc. feels like a lot of more work than usual. Motivation is down since layoffs announcement.
Software dev in security, which maybe unfortunate, but I'll know Sept, 16, just scared to be on the list and I'll just feel stu**d and crashed if I'll get notification next week.
It’s pretty bad … I feel like everyone is kind of hopeless. We have really weak leaders and therefore don’t feel as if we can really do much and therefore people give up. Think about a company like Apple or Nvidia that’s somewhere people are excited to work on projects because they have leaders with vision.
Yeah I feel it - nothing is happening - many projects are paused and discussions about new work don’t go ahead. I heard managers just trying to figure out what work can be done - after 9/16 with the employees left over! Never felt this sense of disconnect before. Even in team that have critical work, there is despair!
Cisco went from 48,000 to 35,000 employees and contractors in 2001. That was a 27% layoff. The parking lot went from mostly full at midnight to empty by 7pm. Those with big money took their Ferraris and Lamborghinis and went home while the rest of us still put in a full work day each day despite a massive drop in income due to the collapse of the stock.
You are facing a set of relatively small layoffs totaling 7% over multiple quarters with a bump in the stock value. You had 23 years of layoffs, far more than annually, to get used to it. The prediction "this is the layoff that changed everything" has been happening on this site for years yet almost everyone stays, doing nothing to improve their own situation. Keep slacking so the people who are at least trying can get ahead.
Cisco gave 2 months transition pay to sit a do nothing but look for another job, then 4 months of severance, benefits, bought back PTO ( I had 7 weeks ) + forward vested some RSUs. As a sales person they stopped the sales commission plan and prorated it which put my attainment well above 200%. As a result I left with 3 times my annual total target compensation - largest payday ever. Had a job offer before I left the company. Im sure I am not the only one -- Cisco invested more than 15 years in certifications which turned out to be like paper gold outside of Cisco. How a company can 'waste' investment in people, productivity being paid to sit around, and money paid out is unbelievable. LR decisions are made by front line managers - they get a number and they give up names - the manager I had first words were, 'this has nothing to do with performance'. LR announcements only help soften Quarterly Performance disappointments.
I am not working at all. Knowing what is ahead, my customer doesn’t want me to work. I am ok with that.
Not really!
OP's statement bang on target "It feels like everyone collectively gave up" this is also the first time i am noticing people have completely given up with absolutely no will to work very sporadic webex activity to boot, how much beating can one take every six months. Even if we escape this people are thinking we have to go through this again in feb '25. This is pathetic
I loves the ciscos does 2hrs in the day and not one knowed nothings andpractise much vialin and doing web cites so i not want lr fu--ing stupids companie
Apparently, that didn't matter even before, since they didn't reach the target, so now they have to discard your work.
I check my email once in the morning and once at night
Same. I've been here almost 2 decades. It's like a switch flipped and we now have a different company. I hate it.
Yep I’ve noticed a lot of folks pretty quiet the last couple of weeks. I’ve also noticed TAC pretty much at its worst lately.
In no mood to work. I am getting panic attacks.
No, not working hard, just doing minimum possible to get by.
I am putting the same amount of effort into Cisco as they are putting into the employee experience. ^__^