I think Meraki, Webex, and ThousandEyes is cool.
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Someone woke up cranky. What are you? 7?
Cisco nurtures woketards better than any company with the possible exception of Facebook or Twitter.
Being the "Best Place to Work", year after year after year after year..., decade after decade...
Can I get a "Oh Yea"!!!
LOL!
Perfecting the art of the layoff. Cisco perfected it long before any other company did. Check how often Cisco has gotten in trouble from a LR......very very seldom.
- Have a dedicated HR and Legal team developing the LR steps
- Review the steps and develop a script for mgmt to stick to......no side steps or discussions....stick to the script!
- Make sure to balance the ageism LRs with some new sacrificial new hire LRs.
It's all a massive waste of money. If Cisco had just spent a little extra effort training the LR targets for other parts of the company (and there has always been tons of open jobs), they could have built a very cool culture and dedicated/loyal workforce. But no...the mgmt team/accountants always look for the easy button....even though it has probably cost the company more in the long run.
The acquistions that made Cisco happened decades ago. Most of the acquistions since then have been garbage. Crescendo in 1993 brought in the Catalyst switching. In 2007 the Nuova spin in brought the Nexus switching. Maybe Actona and Viptela made a difference. The people who ran the labs that put out the design guides are mostly long gone.
Acquisitions. A quick Google search shows Cisco as the most valuable network hardware provider at $175B valuation and Arista Networks as the number two player at $28B (date not shown in Google’s preview.) Most of the big players in the late 1990s are gone because they didn’t have the product coverage Cisco had which is how they came to own so much of the market. Customers clearly still see value in Cisco’s ongoing product portfolio.
Before buying products I’ve found far more useful information in Cisco’s data sheets. Cisco also publishes many other documents without NDAs to show you enough of the internals so you can know when you’re configuration is going to run into any of a zillion wacky limitations designed into everyone’s equipment (my favorite counter is a competitor’s product for around $10,000 where around page 1500 of their reference manual you find you can’t apply an IPv4 ACL and an IPv6 ACL to the same interface.) At the end of the day Cisco has repeatedly won my business because their boxes do what I need and their competitor’s boxes don’t.
Poor Persian SEs
Fran
Mobility
Optical
DNA
Counting to 70. If you have over 20 years, and are over 50 years old (total = 70), you are LR target.
No one will admit this but this is absolutely the truth.
Ex-HR
Wokeness!
Expert at Age Discrimination. If there was a Nobel Prize for that category, Cisco would win it every year.
Mandate injections and hold on to that until every other company drops it... We're followers not leaders.
Name brand ONLY, filled by young employees in 20's, 30's and early 40's with no skill, no passion, no motivation, no expert, no experience outside Cisco, just trying to stick to stay with the company as long as possible. That's it.
Based on some posts here not even the LR at Cisco UK are done properly because some of the UK folks who are posting here should be fired. It is not about them complaining but about the low and stupid way they do it or the way they try to settle their accounts via this site. Local vendettas have no meaning here
LRs
Powerpoint.
Marketing Vaporware
Layoffs! Although Tesla is pretty good at it too.
H-one-B influx
Alphabet people celebrating
- Marketing built an extremely strong and positive brand
- Sales built strong relationships with large companies & governments
- Quietly outsource jobs to countries without labor laws
- Layoff full-time employees and quietly replace them with temp workers
Waste OPEX
Fill any CX exec openings with a friend from Salesforce
NPUs. Just look at the Leaba developed ones heart of many high-end routers
Racetrack ppt slides !!
How about make way more money than everyone else does? That’s gotta count for something.
- LRs at Cisco UK
- Promote and groom ego driven, unskilled self centred political waste of spaces for managerial positions - especially at Cisco UK.
- Encourage sales people to go on vacation at the end of the financial year when we should be pushing to get maximum business to meet Wall St expectations.
- Laugh at thousands of people openly while announcing their LRs on Cisco All Hands calls.
LR's