My advice: If you get laid off, enjoy the package and dont look back. The kind of indiscriminate hiring and firing Cisco does just for the F__k of it borders on corporate malfeasance and should be a topic at the next investors' call. I was RIFd from there in February completely at random along with my whole organization and we were MAKING MONEY for the software side of the business with lots of pipeline. Dont trust them, you are next. Im not going to say 'pray for those effected' or anything along those lines because being laid off from there was a blessing. Run. The F Away. That is all.
Good advice, posted by @agp+1tZGD6lV.