Management is to blame for making some average employees think they are star-employees, while those who really deserve recognition and to be valued more are absolutely invisible. I work with a person who would be a role model employee in some other company. Here her talent is absolutely unrecognized. Cisco is just lucky that all such employees did not leave here long ago.
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Just make sure that visibility is a rainbow. Regardless of performance we must have our equal representations.
ER'd three years ago.
One of the best things that ever happened to me.
Life is a journey, not a webex call.
If they brought back ER (they hardly offered it outside the US), I’d be gone tomorrow.
Exactly! So glad I took the ER in 10/2020. Looking back, one of the best choices I made in life.
Cisco doesn't actually care about employees. They're just numbers on a spreadsheet.
You know this because the leadership capabilities of the average Cisco manager are non-existent. They're three standard deviations to the left of the industry mean. Their entire focus is on managing up and trying to limit their exposure to the annual culling of the herd. Employees are just left to fend for themselves.
If you're looking for a career, Cisco clearly isn't the place for you to be. If you're trying to get that last year or two in before you retire, you can keep your head down and get there.
There is a TSA in the region that went to Chairman’s Club. Since he came back from the trip, he can’t seem to stop talking about how he rubbed shoulders with so many executives. He is an above average but not great as he believes. There are 2 reasons why he got it. He had great sales partner that drove the business and his peers were always called in to save the day and win the business. He never gave his sales partner or peers any credit. There are others that work much harder than him and are much more deserving than him.
Only male divas receive recognitions at CheeseCo.
Cisco is not a performance based company.