This can't be emphasized strongly enough. There are so many dedicated employees here, many of who have been with Cisco for well over a decade. But due to constant understaffing, resistance to new ideas, and overall lack of transparency, the best and brightest are walking away and will continue to do so. Cisco is willingly losing its best resource. As a business strategy, I can't see how this will turn out well in the end.
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Oh Cisco knows that. The issue is about identifying the people you want to keep, and those you'd be better off without. We've accumulated too many useless folks with zero technical knowledge or will to better themselves.
Unfortunately, companies that aren't growing don't need highly motivated, innovative employees. Those employees actually have high expectations for the leadership team and regularly expose their incompetence.
Given that, the leadership team is actually incented to remove those folks from their organizations and surround themselves with the comfortably numb.
The entire top leadership in CX and especially the highest tier in Premiere has been dining on their own BS since V2MOMMY got here and maybe before. There isn't a single thing that we are going to market with in Premiere that aligns to our customers needs. Business is contracting on the biggest of our customers and we are missing the boat on the rest. CX cloud is a joke and the same goes for the BS that passes for BCS these days. If you are in CX ask you director to observe a deal review call. Its not as bad as a check-in yet but close. The megla maniacal self importance of the senior directors in premiere should be a case study. The absolute worst is EW who facies herself gods gift to Cisco and doesn't realize she's in a quadruple protected class.
This is generally Cisco's strategy. It know that the brightest and best won't hang around - it will retain a very average kind of person. A kind of person who doesn't expect too much comp and will sing the praises of glorious Cisco on Check-ins.
It doesn't want high flyers, at least not for the long term.
Cisco won't.
We have been in a managed decline. Outsource jobs to countries without labor laws, and quietly transition to more temp/contract workers in America.
The employees are easily replaceable, we sell & market legacy network equipment. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to sell or support catalyst switches.
People with just networking skills are a replaceable commodity. Networking skills whilst important are not where the action is in 2022 and do not command a premium - i.e., they are replaceable so people with them are not cherished (aka they be hired and fired). Refer to CCIE thread.