Gulf Coast being top region is embarrassing for US Commercial. Our AVP told us that it is a legacy territory region with the smallest goal in the US. AVP stated they should either get a big boy goal or be sent down to SMB and be virtual.
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OP. If this is the sentiment of your AVP and you have to courage to post something like this, Cisco is in bigger trouble than we can even imagine. Instead of looking at a top performer as an example and something to be celebrated, he or she took the opportunity to cheapen their accomplishment and mock their importance to the business only to make you, your peers, and him or herself feel better. I can't help but think that attitudes like this may have contributed to Cisco's poor performance in FY24. I encourage Cisco to get back to a performance based culture that celebrates victories and accomplishments rather than tear down others and find excuses rather than solutions.
Your AVP was only telling you that so they could feel better about YOU being such a failure.
Clearly some of you haven't sold into enterprise, Meraki is literally everywhere in both the big campus and branch sites. Rock solid wireless, Switching is now Catalyst hardware and way easier to manage than our POS Catalyst Center solution
commercial field reps do clerical work a few hours a day and are a total waste of Cisco’s money
any large enterprise is stupid to use meraki for its large campus or data center, its a branch system, provides cloud administration for low density devices not designed to do a whole lot besides providing basic connectivity and enforcement in a cool looking box. SEs are digging their own grave pushing as the platform for everything the customer needs, might has well put DLINK in their DCs, mo--ns.
Meraki was, and continues to be, a SMB play. It was never designed for large enterprises.
Sales reps are just admins these days just waiting for resellers to call them asking for larger discounts
Meraki doesn’t make products for tiny customers that’s stupid comment
The whole sales org should be just turned over to the partners...
Too many segments. Just combine commercial and enterprise.
Eliminate US commercial sales and revenue would be the same as resellers do the real selling anyway
Cisco doesn’t make products for tiny customers like that. I mean I guess Meraki but that’s tiny.