- ) There is simply no sustainable strategy to continue to cut costs by using H1B labor, just to maintain R&S software... continued...
- ) H1B visas go to Juniper (or other company) and then right back to Cisco making double... raising the costs.... continued...
- ) You cannot find other 3rd world countries to get labor for less and less and less and less and less and less...
- ) Cisco only shows innovation by buying another more innovative company. But some of these companies end up trashed.
- ) Cisco closed buildings and tore them down (example WebEx Sunnyvale) only to build labor camps (apartments) for H1B visas, right next door.
- ) John Chambers said, a 1 or 2 companies will be left in ten 10. He immediately abandoned Cisco right away - what did he know?
- ) Cisco missed out on building a Cloud enterprise, instead they waited for others. And only then did they get WOKE.
- ) Cisco REALLY needs to do a LOT more to look like a leader that they once used to be. Till then Cisco's stock price is WAY too high.
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I work for Cisco in SP, and I have the sneaking suspicion that the Enterprise business is lurching through a huge shift in how their networking works. I’m not Cisco will come through that transition very well.
Someone made a bold claim about building Q being open. WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All gyms are closed in California. Also health centers now use Zoom meetings. My guess is that Cisco's health center uses WebEx (haha).
Anyway
That means building Q is closed.
"Do you even work for Cisco?"
Nope! I just read the articles online and I also take the VTA transit along Tasman and see the coming and going of H1B visas.
And I see the empty buildings.
But judging by the comments - my analysis of Cisco was pretty darn close.
Of course there is innovation left. Hire more and more of the so called Business Architects who know nothing about technology and we can keep innovating ways we can play bullish!t bingo on serial Webex calls while listening to those muppets droning endlessly dodging straight technical questions
at Duo we are all about innovations
The writing is on the wall for some of the old business units in Enterprise Networking (Switches and Routers) most of the Hardware will be turned over to white box manufacturers (Foxconn, Pegatron etc) and Cisco will do the software. Some of the senior people in Enterprise got stranded from the early retirement offering.
On a completely different note why do companies like Cisco need so many H1B visas when they have large offices in India and China? Surely most of these workers can work from there?
It wasn’t JCs choice to leave. He was forced.
- ) How many thousand people would it take to show a profit before Covid recovery (1k, 2k, 4k, 8k, 16k, 32k) ?. Hint: It's not 1k.
- ) Buildings M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T are already shut down, years before Covid, correct?
I would recommend that it is time to start shutting down the rest of buildings:
A through Z (& then)
1 through 20
RTP buildings are already closed, correct?
(Keep going. this strategy just might save Cisco's arse, from laying off 32k people?)