My friend who's an RM caught wind that a hiring freeze could be on the horizon. We are trying to get clarity on "what" this means for internal candidates (if the freeze would only impact external roles). Has anyone heard anything?
15 replies (most recent on top)
Jeff S is compensated on net profit of the sales org and he is hiring newbie AM's at low pay to replace experienced AM's to line his own pockets
Commercial Sales is hiring more account managers and systems engineers with no real account assignments or goals. It is very odd.
Hiring freeze? I’ve not been able to hire for 2 years now.
4 reactions (+0/-4)
Down voting the idea that not everything on the internet is true. This is definitely a Cisco group!
...it said here back in August that Oct-Nov will have LRs. Reality enough for you?
Less than a year ago they were saying here everyone was so enraged by the layoffs that everyone would quit. Guess what didn't happen?
On the other hand you don't need to be Nostradamus to predict layoffs at a company that has had perpetual layoffs, sometimes quarterly, since 2001. With most companies slowing hiring into the holidays unless you have insider information you're simply playing the odds.
Cisco's Q1 results show up in 12 days.
@2pqy+1pnmLRdv it said here back in August that Oct-Nov will have LRs. Reality enough for you?
It said here the last quarter results would be bad too. Is anything here grounded In reality?
Yes. Q1 results are BAD.
Stealth hiring freeze and upcoming after winter break layoffs. Get ready.
Yes about to go on a freeze due to poor errr terrible Q1 performance.
Yeah: if you're a WHITE HETEROS-XUAL MAN, you will not get hired at Cisco.
In CX we are already on a hiring freeze, backfills are a notion of the past as might as well be a good sci-fi novel.
No joke, the last candidate I interviewed for our team was over a year ago. So we’ve been strapped for people for a while and it’s exhausting.
I don’t see things getting any better though.
“Leaders” all at offsites. Huge change coming.
Hiring freeze followed by another round of layoffs before the Splunk folks arrive