Counted 3 in LinkedIn only today. I left last year too. The end is near.
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Distinguished/principal enginers leave în droves
This is bad? Not really, in my 15 years, a lot of those were useless mouths and can fix a single sh**. Innovation, looked at those failed acquisitions and no home grown new things. I said get rid of 50% of those useless mouthes and you won't feel a difference.
"the guy starts asking VMware NSX deep integration questions to show his supermacy and then reject you on the basis of lack on VMware NSX knowledge"
What a du----s. He should go work for VMware.
Well I know lots of DSE's/PA's who join all the WebEx calls, even with a remote guy finishing somewhere in Indian Ocean, DSE's and PA's will talk to him on fishing topic. Show internally how busy their calender is and always show tiredness on calls as how crazy busy their life is. Truth - They all need to go as they have been collecting gazillions of free pennies for doing nothing. They would argue with you till you cut your wrist but wont challenge and push anyone back in engineering and their peer relationship. Also, if you have a new idea, watch then grabbing it and throwing you out of loop.
Magically they are trusted by all useless senior leadership, who cant even sell a banana to anyone, and get paid for doing nothing. There are tons of these in Cisco, one of them is that ACI guy - PA - Carlos someone, got to his PA by just making ACI videos and talking ACI and VMware integration. Really, PA by just talking ACI, well good for him and Cisco. The guy asks you ACI questions in interview and when you show him you know your sh-t, the guy starts asking VMware NSX deep integration questions to show his supermacy and then reject you on the basis of lack on VMware NSX knowledge .... Lol, I thought people got interviewed on DC TSA ACI role :-)
So... a lot over highly intelligent, extremely highly paid people are leaving. Big deal. It's not like Cisco is looking to do any more innovation, right?
People who know their stuff are tired of wokeness. If you give an opinion you might offend a snowflake. No one who can get a job needs that.
Frankly, I was taught not to talk s-x, religion, & politics at work back in the '90's. If you keep your personal opinions to yourself and just talk "work" at work, you don't have to worry about offending the snowflakes.
I may not care for all the political and social justice stuff Cisco is doing, but I check my opinions at the door and I stay happy. I don't want to listen to their opinions and I don't offer mine, therefore I don't pi-s them off and they can't pi-s me off. I have to work with these people for 8 hrs a day, I don't need to worry about which ones agree with my personal views on politics, etc. and which ones don't. It's easier that way.
Anyone want to talk about the Superbowl? :-)
Agreed, and it looks like many who aren't gone yet are looking for the exit.
No seriously. AWS is the last place I'd go to. Pets vs cattle. Layers and layers between you and engineering mean you can't influence sh-t. Not sure how talented people find that gig attractive.
Can't take a startup, mate. I'm coming from Cisco, I know nothing just like you. Can be woke at times.
"I was shown the AWS door"
Such a lack of creativity and ambition should be severely punished. If you're gonna leave, take a startup where you have a chance to take influence things. AWS needs pawns, lots of pawns.
Nevermind, they will always find someone for peanuts to pay their big money.
You weirdos really over play the wokeness stuff. Is it a problem? Yes. But nowhere near as big of a problem as the lack of technical innovation.
"And why are you keeping a tally of which DE/PE leaves Cisco? Did you really leave on your "own terms" or were you shown the door?"
Heck mate. We are connected. This is how LinkedIn works for god sake
On the 2nd,. I was shown the AWS door;)
People who know their stuff are tired of wokeness. If you give an opinion you might offend a snowflake. No one who can get a job needs that.
And why are you keeping a tally of which DE/PE leaves Cisco? Did you really leave on your "own terms" or were you shown the door?