Cisco was once the company that built the Internet. It's now rudderless having been led by people without a vision for the future.
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Make no mistke, the leaders have razor-sharp, crystal clear vision and we are all (LR, ER, or survivors) pay the price, the financial hit and the emotional toll. Find a way to earn an honest living, and look ahead and leave the failing company in your wake.
Laid off two years ago after Maria Martinez arrived after she was thrown out of SFDC for trying to implement the same plan she is rolling out now.The entire executive team is nothing but yes men and women and are solely responsible for the downward spiral of the company.The good news, lots of great jobs out there with companies that look and feel like Cisco years ago under JC. CHin up folks, it will be OK
Golden parachutes do NOT fall into the spiral sir...they just keep circling..like a toilet.
How few people could change the outcome and k–l the company:
Cloud techie and I was LRed a year ago with the team, and today I still look back and ask what went wrong, I do can say we were going to cloud, and built all cloud poc, yet one single technical leader who has leader's ears refuse to go to cloud, and still forces us to ship out ucs appliance to each customer for the service.. the reason he stated is that aws and azure can not handel processing power of network monitoring, all events, etc, when confronted how come Netflix lives in cloud? .. he got his way, eliminated entire cloud team and product, of course he was wrong and look at today, we don't have nothing, it is just sad to see how one person could k–l.
Cisco is becoming Nortel?
Cisco missed the cloud market. That as deadly as Nortel missed the IP market in the 90s.
Not only missed the cloud market, but also the software market, what is everything. Microsoft had zero background in networking and data center. Thanks to its know-how in software, they rule. Cisco always weak in user interface and software and it did not bring people to change that culture.
Am prior Cisco, now have worked at two Enterprises since LR. I am still Cisco advocate, but it truly the big shift now to cloud and virtual; don’t refresh the Cisco EOL items, move it to cloud, and other vendors having more and more cost effective and simple solution. Name of the game is spin up the VM, keep it available, and be able to move it where need be. How people get to the VM is getting simpler and simpler. Year 2020 and COVID is making much of that happen too with everyone going remote. Cisco still makes great 9K and data center line for onsite stuff, but if you don’t need that dedicated infrastructure just move your stuff to AWS and make sure you can resurrect the critical apps if the crud really hits the fan. I was hoping back in the day when Cisco was trying to kick in a cloud offer that they would easily bundle cloud into our mainstay hardware but that boat was missed. Sorry to everyone, including my neighbors still there.
Copying this from another thread, but it's all truth!!!
This is a sad day, a company that people adore is getting ki–ed from the inside. ELT should have created Cisco Cloud 5 years ago and followed the path of OCI, GCP and of course MSFT. The only LR that should occur today is Chuck, Jerri, and the entire CX team should be given golden parachutes and people that love Cisco should be allowed to bring her back to life.
I am sorry to my Brothers and Sisters that your leadership failed you, and the share holders. History is filled with examples of amazing individual contributors with poor leadership that took down the ship
Cisco is becoming:
Sun Micro Systems
Avaya
Nortel
McData
Cabletron
Cisco could be:
HPE
UCI
MSFT
NVIDIA
Prayers be with all of you today on this very gloomy day...
Chambers chose severs over the Cloud. This is the layoff that Chuck wanted to do on Day 1 of his tenure. Maybe getting laid off ain't the worst thing that can happen.
Totally agree, leadership team make false decisions, skillful and hard working engineers will get laid off.