Our leadership is tone deaf and short-sighted.
Are they waiting for Cisco to run out of the most capable engineers who take their talent to other companies to finally do something about it?
Will they do anything to at least slow down the natural attrition?
How many engineers will stay here if this negative trend continues?
It is worrying how many "This is my last day" emails have arrived in recent times.
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I just left over lack of compensation and no faith in the ELT. I miss the Cisco when John Chambers was CEO. BU is forced to rush out features to say we are competitive but never fix the core issues and the problems compound.
Margin over quality technical support may be a recipe for a short term gain but not for long term sustainable growth. Support used to be 2nd to none but now people don’t even want to call support over how bad it is in several areas.
It is savable but someone needs to purchase major shares and try what Elon is doing for Tesla. Elon come save Cisco! I kid but leadership failures start at the top and trickle down. Hope the share holders can see there are problems with how things are heading and focus on some core things and do them the best that can be done.
I don’t have any hard feelings either. I was wise with my time there and I do not wish any negative fall out over lots of friends who depend on Cisco and love their job. Many can agree over worked and grossly underpaid is best description for daily life of loyal employees.
Left because of bad management. Never been happier. Got a 50% plus pay raise. Regret staying 10+ years at Cisco.
Cisco has been a walking dead company for a decade or more. Real talent left the building long ago.
I was brought into Cisco through an acquisition and I’m exhausted from working on under-resourced teams ever since. Comp is okay, but you can make way more elsewhere. I think I get a new manager every 6 months or so. Lol
@2hxq+1g7ACiLs good riddance
I’m leaving Cisco today. Good bye next Nortel :) . (10 years at cisco, ex SE, ex PSS, ex CE)
Chuck need meet with working engineers now. Talents are leaving becsuse middle management not like innovations because they cause schedule slips and stupid salesmens lie about current products capabilities and EA and CX EA supports creating more issue with customers. Only engineer can explain Chuck what needs to happen to fix talent. We need raise to hire smarter engineers and keep them. They need give more RSU to developers not sales people who do nothing but lie to customer about new buzzword of business outcomes. Worse now, is services people trying act like salesmen too!! Customer confused. CX is the most d-mb dead peoples. When I gets email from some cx people I ignore because it cost me brain cells to respond. I have to think like child. In the end, we engineers are best to know how to fix the technical and no talent problems!
No problem, them engineers can leave, Cisco will continue to exist. Tones of Cisco switches/routers/firewalls/etc running in enterprise/sp/govt. production. All these need maintenance and support. That's over $10b in recurring revenue every Q. Think about that, you fluking cloowns.
CISCO will continue to acquire talents (buy companies) and some(maybe small) on the way may stay for few more years for whatever the reasons. That plus yearly fresh grad/early in the career hiring - there will be some talents there. So, No talents will be there but the problem is that do CISCO have a competent line mgr/director group that won't waste talents?
Looking at my dept somewhere deep in CX, we are desperate to keep seniority but people leave faster than they can be hired. It is the same cycle which happens every couple of years but is a slow downward spiral.
Our leadership might be aware but are unable to change anything stable.
"Talent is no longer the hiring priority for Cisco. There is now a long list of identity politics' factors that drive hiring. This woke experiment is not going to end well for shareholders."
We sell legacy network equipment in 2022. I'd also focus on identity politics' over our product offerings. Would you rather have the ELT talk about how we've missed out on cloud, security, and software?
Identity politics' is a nice distraction for employees and shareholders.
Don't need talent for the new BCS contracts
Good engineers are being payed their worth outside the company and the deadwood milking it can not maintain products or create new ones. Punishing talent is not the way, take care of your engineers otherwise other companies will.
Cisco hasn't innovated for years. Current business model doesn't require talent.
Cisco stalled when they acquired Flip Video in 2009 for $590 million. Turns out the future of technology wasn't handheld cameras.
Nope. Most aren't leaving for better money, they're moving because Cisco has stalled. Clueless leadership as useful as cows watching trains roll by. I'm well compensated and high up in the food chain, yet believe me when I say a week doesn't go by without thinking about getting out of here.