Especially since the last round of layoffs. We lost a few people on our team and the workload has remained the same. It's too much.
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Bring in the fresh talent, please!!
Be sure to restock the Chianti and fava beans!
Set boundaries.
Say no.
The older you are the more overwhelmed you will feel. Bring in the fresh talent, please!!
When is the OP high flyer leaving?
I am not overwhelmed. I am only disoriented.
...I got the worst raise ever in my whole career. Albeit, my performance review being very positive.
Wait until you're good enough to get a promotion during a wage freeze and get no more money, or until you're given the job of rewriting in far less time what people far more senior than you sc--wed up so completely they had to be pulled off the project. These are but the smallest taste of the financial inequities of working for a big company, and collectively why people who jump jobs every time they can no longer grow as fast as they're capable make far more money than people who stay at one job.
At Cisco I survived about two dozen layoffs at my site before I got swept out with all the groups under my Director who was also laid off. While the layoff rate at every other company I worked at was lower, they still occurred and it was always the same set of problems. A few were freaked out about it even when they were not the ones laid off, many more lived in pure denial to the point that they couldn't grasp they were laid off in the meeting room where they were just told they were laid off, and the rest acknowledge reality and hopefully do some kind of risk management.
At least in software Cisco grew its workload exponentially by allowing the same basic code to either be cut-and-pasted many times or developed independently many times and then forked it into what was at one time over 500 release branches. Documentation is either non-existent or disinformation which senselessly added to the workload. If Cisco had learned to "work smarter" it would already be able to do more with a staff far less than half the size of its current staff. As with layoffs, the same problems happen at every other company I've worked at on a smaller scale.
Does anyone actually understand Cisco licensing and the million support models? Does anyone understand what the fu-k Ciscos’s mission is or where it sees itself in five years?
I’m feeling very overwhelmed, in addition to pretty much everyone else on my team. Unfortunately, it’s really starting to show. Cisco is a company run by marketing and finance/sales people. Which is totally fine, but as an engineer it’s incredibly frustrating. Our BU makes a ton of money, growing ARR, and I got the worst raise ever in my whole career. Albeit, my performance review being very positive.
The hash reality is that your team is not important, disposable/replaceable by other cheaper geo location.
Please make yourself ready for interview. The most important skill is skill to find a new job.
Please allow me to paste this again ...
Mgrs not assign tasks, the trick is let engineer to ask engineers sign up.
for tasks in list_of_releases:
while tasks != 0:
asking_signup
Doesn't matter how many releases, how many tasks. Using this trick eventually we can make engineer accountable for every single tasks. Also axe the old dog to show the iron fist and keep the wheel rolling.
Yes, but I doubt the supreme imbeciles in charge are capable of understanding we can't even support features released in shipping code.
Yes. We were already under headcount in our team and still folks were let go.
Typical Cisco and then wonder why no one can deliver anything anymore