Just a post to see if those in Cisco think the culture in Cisco has improved or declined. There was a recent interview where someone senior in Cisco said moral was strong and never better. I’m a customer now but also an ex employee.
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When Cisco was building the Internet and all employees reaped the benefits of the company's success, the morale at Cisco was off the charts.
Once it became clear that Cisco had become completely sales led and that Cisco would rely on acquisitions to attempt to innovate, morale dropped into the $hitter and has stayed there ever since. Now, the only people reaping the benefits of the sale of legacy networking equipment from years ago are the people on the ELT who couldn't innovate themselves out of a wet paper sack.
There was a recent interview where someone senior in Cisco said moral was strong and >never better. I’m a customer now but also an ex employee.
No idea but base on my ex-colleagues, software technical staffs' moral is very low. I guess those people are not visible to executives.
They are lying. The culture is horrible mostly due to the focus on political issues vs actually running a business. Especially since it is very one sided. I left as I go to work to work not deal with a bunch of political BS.
There's no culture anymore. When did our culture and values bagdes disappear? Over 10 years ago. Now it's literally down to your manager to impose her vision of Cisco's culture. Pulse surveys show disastrous results in the company's outlook section.
Long gone are the days of high morale. The best times were in the late 90s.
Ask what the employee engagement surveys were done? What were results? Our BU Webex Marketing had terrible survey results for Aruna and she ignored the results...as did Javed and Jeetu! They are not honest about moral as they have heads in sand and don't want to deal with issues...they don't care!
Is "psychological torture" considered "culture"?
Love the comment Fran : )
Announcing layoffs to drive up stock prices but then not letting those affected know until 3 weeks later shows you what kind of company this really is. All around the holidays. There are managers that have been targeting their direct reports just to save their own bacon when one look at the org chart shows the “redundancy” is really at the manager, directors and above level.