Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

To the jerk who wrote about Liz being gone from cancer. You absolute fu--ing mo--n. Id--ts that the ELT are, I wouldn't inflict such a thing on them, nor do I have an issue with them personally as human beings. It's their uselessness as leaders that we discuss here. You should be ashamed of yourself for saying such a thing.

OP sounds like RK, the worthless head of research of Outshi(f)t. Sounds like OP is part of LC’s Telugu platoon. Supporting her to protect his own career.

You’re a su-k up man, she’s. A terrible leader who accomplished nothing for ELT. She created all the mess, should have been fired.

Reading these posts make me realize how truly thankful I am to be now completely away from this mess for over five years. At one time, the money had complete power over my mental well being.

Life is a journey, and getting out of that mess gave me my life back. Much simpler, and can actually speak my mind and be genuine.

No amount of money is worth going back to it.

My advice, if you are there because you truly need the money, try to ride it out.

If you are truly as miserable as I was there the last four years or so; if it is ruling your life and you can't cope without major anxiety...then get out.

Glad the door opened for me. Wake up and go, while there is still time in your life to enjoy it.

You wrote: "...Don't worry about Liz she'll be dead from cancer soon enough ..."
Buddy, that cruel and out of place. What the he-l's wrong with you? Show a sliver of compassion.

The ELT uses high-level buzzwords to sell Wall Street on the company, and focuses on cutting costs as the main corporate strategy.

@hcj+1tmHtPwJ

Even worse is I don't think the ELT knows what it is trying to do other than say the right buzz words and hope something clicks with Wall St without actually having to deliver anything viable.

As an employee I cannot honestly say I know WTF the company is trying to do or what its purpose is any more. We are alienating more and more customers every single day with complexity, poor quality and expensive impossible-to-understand licensing.

Look, no point beating around the bush. The ELT's gross incompetence is sinking the ship. Liz, JD, G2 are all lame. They don't know anything technical, they don't understand market trends, they don't understand what customers are saying. A useless bunch busy getting richer while the company is slowly dying.

Customers have been honest with Cisco for decades. Unfortunately, Cisco's eternal arrogance led it to ignore the honest customer feedback and now finds itself with no viable growth plan as their cash cow business, routing and switching, begins its inevitable decline.

This is all on the senior executives that have failed to take advantage of Cisco's long-term customer relationships and financial position to create valuable business solutions for the industry.

Liz is probably a massive zionist and has ties.

MM significantly cut costs, she laid off thousands of employees. No bad PR or hiccups.

She did her job.

@ygo+1tmHtPwJ, I don't like the ELT either (I was laid off in February), but I think such a comment is borderline inappropriate…

Don't worry about Liz she'll be dead from cancer soon enough

Let’s look at what Liz has accomplished first during her tenure at Cisco. Liz ran ET&I for years and years - what does she have to show for it? How many products and solutions has our R&D come up with, leave alone those that generate revenue? None! But that did not stop her from buying useless dud companies for billions of dollars which in turn caused layoffs at other areas of the business. The corrosive effect is two fold: acquisition of useless portfolios across the solution scale ( security, visibility, dc…) that did not add anything positive to business AND the layoffs of genuine experienced employees because of those same useless acquisitions.

Then, she has this habit of going in front of customers and talking absolute rubbish about how prevalent Gen AI has been internal to Cisco for years and years! And how one can mine raw data and do AI! Good lord, the absolute nonsense that comes out of her mouth is mind boggling!

R&D under her not coming up with any credible solutions with business value did not stop her from promoting her coat-tail hangers and members of the Telugu league. RK, the Head of R&D was just promoted to Cisco Fellow despite achieving absolutely nothing for Outshift. This is how LC has run her tenure. So yes, LC, MM, CR, FK all of them are as useless as lipstick on a pig

And you forget, MM brought an army of royalist and put them in high positions, replacing those doing the work. Now their is hierarchy of VP, Directors earning fat paychecks without any playbooks or service offerings, while silencing anyone who dares to speak up.

Liz has a tough job cleaning this sh-t 💩 planted by MM, while she and her cohorts stay on sidelines at Cisco, drawing salaries, looking for outside jobs and laughing to the banks. What a crisis!!! 🙈🥲😇

I do believe to be successful she has to fire the VP leaders who blindly and happily followed MM. the ones who shut down feedback and fired anyone who dared to speak up.