Yes. That should be those key roles that are available. I wonder when will it open for the remaining roles.
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Looks like many of the previously open reqs have been cancelled. Much less on the job space that there was a week ago.
Think key roles had been all along open. Now is those “non key roles”, when will they start hiring.
Hiring has already resumed for key roles.
Is it true that position will first be offered to internal candidates as priority when layoff happens? After which then it will be offered to outside candidates
The whole point of a "limited restructuring" is cutting positions that are redundant or no longer needed, so they are not backfilled. After a short period of time, say a quarter or two, managers will get permission to open vendor reqs to add cheap labor to do the work and take some strain off the team who had to absorb the additional duties that the redundant person left behind. If it truly was a necessary role, the vendor who filled it might be given priority to convert into an employee.
All the frozen reqs that were in the system before the LR are supposed to be available to the impacted employees, it's probably less than 1% of the laid off workers who get to fill any of those roles. They were LR'd for a reason; they were too expensive or too old, or both, so managers on other teams don't want them due to what it does to their budget.
For teams that are growing, and do need to hire, it really depends on how urgent the need is and how rare the qualifications are. If it's just another body to do coding, then they'll probably open it up internally for 30 days and then open it up to external hires. If it's a special skillset that's scarce or urgently needed, then the req might get opened up both externally and internally at the same time.
The point is, if you're LR'd, don't hold your breath thinking that you can easily fill one of the 8000 open job reqs that the CFO put the firing freeze on. Once you're LR'd, you're damaged goods to Cisco. You're better off to take the package, find another job somewhere else and wait out your 6-mo blackout period before attempting to apply for future rolls at Cisco.
For a while, I had a skillset that was in demand at Cisco, so when I was LR'd from one team, another team brought me back after a year. But, I was too expensive and too old and they were phasing out the tools that required my special skillsets. There were others on the team w/ the same skills who'd been with Cisco longer and the need was dwindling, so they cut 20% of us with that skillset a couple of years later.
A year after that, another team needed to staff up quickly & I had most of the skills needed by that team's new project. I beat out a person who had stronger skills, but had never worked at Cisco and didn't have contacts across the various teams that this project would need to interface with and I did, so I won out and I'm back for the third time. Still expensive, and several years older and still have a huge target on my back. But I know that I'm employable outside Cisco, so getting a large lump sum to soothe the kick to the a$$ that boots me to the curb every 2-5 yrs is just money in the bank.
Is it true that position will first be offered to internal candidates as priority when layoff happens? After which then it will be offered to outside candidates
Queen Fran has vanquished the new CFO. The hiring freeze is over. Let the layoffs begin.
Guess only HR will know when
MIG BU seems to be hiring a couple every few weeks. Most are interns.
Layoffs at Cisco are constant, we are in a managed decline.
Heard next week will resume hiring.