Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

Some amazing leaders out there let's not generalise

However I am seeing weak people in position of power they can't spell Cisco nevermind lead a motion

Numbers are a lagging indicator by this I mean they are the result of hard yards, visiting customers and partners, building a culture which takes ownership and doesn't pass the batton to distribution or a partner

The above I feel is rare in Cisco

Everyone wants numbers, but few want to do hard yards, and for the ones that do don't ki-l your customer with 150 slide decks on security

I don't think you enjoy doing these presentations and customers enjoy listening to them less

Leaders including Sr Managers and Directors don’t understand Cisco products or technology skills engineers or architects have.

Cisco's technical leadership is also extremely weak. Marketing which is responsible for market research and guiding product development as well as promoting the result is also extremely weak. Managers that came up through these ranks lived in small bubbles where people didn't communicate so when they become untrained management they don't know how to draw the right information they need for the mostly business decisions they have to make, therefore they make many bad decisions. The ranks above them to which some will rise not only have no more communications skills but even less reach to the people from which they need to learn.

In well run organizations people communicate and cross train extensively across all levels and know that every level from the bottom to the top can bring critical unique things to the overall program. Cisco's most senior engineers have made many egregious mistakes costing Cisco tens to hundreds of millions a pop because they didn't know what they were doing and felt they could dictate rather than cooperatively come to major decisions.

I used to work for Juniper before I came to Cisco. Juniper CEO Rami Rahim is an engineer who came up the ranks. He is humble, has open floor policy for all employees. At all hands he’d talk about actual technology solutions and why that makes sense for customers. Whether Juniper is a great company or not is a different issue. Fact is they did take business away from Cisco in SP and Enterprise ( Mist) and are way ahead in their AI driven solutions from a technical perspective . I have heard the same from friends at Google, Microsoft and NVIDIA about their CEOs. Look at their market cap and stock price. Those CEOs are techies and they talk technology.

On the other hand, CR talks about everything BUT technology . At Cisco the SE directors are the same - not only they spout some mumbo-jumbo from the internet without any real world context, they expect employees to swallow that as an insult to their intelligence!

This is what Cisco gets for having a sales weasel for a CEO. His directors are as useless as the CEO. A tech company needs a CEO who is a techie, not an uninspiring used car salesperson who, with the bags under his eyes, looks like he had too many cocktails overnight at a golden shower party. RIP Cisco .

Seems more and more, the reality we see on Cisco Check-in is simply an act to impress audiences without concrete steps to make Cisco a better (great?) place to work.