Which areas are getting affected by layoffs in the upcoming weeks?
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It's not just about overlays but about most SS being product oriented than service oriented (which requires effort to sell). Too much fat onboarded with each product acquisition so it's natural to cut it periodically.
Agreed a lot of overlays. But that’s because the portfolio is so immensely complex. This is Cisco problem. Customers lose the will to live during Cisco sales pitch. Just too much stuff to too many peoples. And all with different licensing and ton of support models. And more and more every year and all running at same time. It’s nuts how complexing it as became and account teams not understanding it all. Impossibles.
@vjy+1qYZYPRy Hold on to your seat. Tidal wave coming.
agreed smart spaces team on top of spaces on top of EN on top of the account team is just ridiculous
My observation from being with the sales org in Cisco for 24 years is that we've now gotten to a situation where we have too many "Over lay" sales teams to cover the various technologies. The original thought was that the generalist seller can't know all the various technologies from routing, security, collab, etc. But we've not got overlays on top of overlays with sometimes 5 different layers getting paid on the same revenue.
Haven’t seen anything or heard anything in enterprise sales yet
This has been covered fairly extensively the past week. Lots of good discussions in other posts. Maybe go look through those to find the info.
Stop being lazy and search the previous posts.
That’s about right, many LR notices already delivered. Layoffs happening every week at Cisco.
Anybody knows if outshift is affected?
I was told today that LR notices had already been sent out in many teams.