https://www.businessinsider.com/layoff-survivors-describe-being-overworked-anxious-in-the-aftermath-2022-9
How many Cisco LRs have I survived? All of them.
I have survived 9 LRs and still going. I am like a cat with 9 lives. I never worried about being LR'ed, ever. I don't KA. I don't brown nose. I don't over work myself. I don't BS. I don't peddle politics or rumors or gossips. I give it all my best. Other companies are hiring, remember that.
Don't waste your life in the Cisco Hunger Games.
Certainly sounds familiar. I survived three LR cycles in UK and the trauma that the memory of those serial “consultation emails” caused contributed significantly towards my decision to quit Cisco SE org couple of months ago. This culture of bullying people into submission with a constant unuttered looming threat of layoffs is not somewhere talent can be nurtured. Some managers turn into bullies using that culture. There are far better places to work. The world is a big place.