Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

Cisco is a minor player in IT nowadays

Cisco is lost in its own smug self-importance with nobody sycophantic dullards in all layers of management thinking they're the next Jobs/Gates/Zuckerberg. Company ruled by salespeople with no technical people on the ELT. It is a minor player in IT nowadays, relegated out of the boardroom. Cisco has missed all the big technology seismic shifts in IT; cloud, L7 security and remote collaboration. Cisco skills have very little relevance now in IT and staff are leaving. Many of these fatal errors were made by JC and yet CR does not seem to able to turn this round.

Originally posted by @ppd+1epZX53D.

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Unfortunately correct. Cisco have become a legacy company in my opinion. Were once pioneers and innovators. Sad to see as I have invested so much of my time and energy honing my Cisco skills... Also the software can be so buggy you cannot possibly make money in large deployments with the extra hours required making things work as a SI.

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Post ID: @4xtt+1eym5aMM

Newsflash, outside the US Cisco has never been anything other than a minor player.

I recall one GSX, JC stating that a Cisco business card was a guaranteed door-opener to any CEO’s office. Yeah, right. Come and walk a mile in my shoes in EMEAR.

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Post ID: @bgs+1eym5aMM

I agree and I guess most folks reading this also agree. Unfortunately the stock is near an all-time high and the ELT is poised to think they have something to do with it. Numbers look good enough for the quarter, investors are getting a handsome profit so nobody really cares if there's no strategy. Chambers worked that way for years: only this week's numbers matter. Book the order, ship junk, fix it in the field using CAP resources. And blissfully miss giant market transitions.

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