Let me make it clear, I hate constant layoffs and how much the company and its core values have changed in the last 5+ years, but I still like my job. It's challenging and I have great coworkers, an amazing manager, and good pay. I'm on this forum not because I hate Cisco, like so many other posters seem to, but because I don't want to lose what I have. Am I really in the minority on this?
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You are not alone ,Chuck is always with you.
The reality is, lots of folks like working at cisco, but you get selection bias on forums like this. People come here to vent, troll, gossip, etc.. it's very much a "bubble". To those complaining about layoffs - what big tech company hasn't done it? It's the new normal y'all, get with the program or get left behind!
I genuinely enjoy working at Cisco, and I appreciate the good benefits, competitive pay, and solid work/life balance. However, the constant fear of layoffs has created a toxic atmosphere. It's hard to stay focused and motivated when every six months, I find myself worrying if I'll be next.
Yep, guess I am a troll if you want to call it that way. Several colleagues and I consider it time well spent. The more we can influence tenured Cisco people (the ones who are indeed skilled; not the new crowd) to move on, the better it is for us to move in and move the Cisco gear to other OEMs. We make our money on migration during refresh. This scenario appears to be increasingly working, because more and more we take on larger Cisco Install Base accounts, who have not the best opinions of their account teams. What we here regularly is anyone with "old school" Cisco ethics (customer first; drive issue to closure via taking personal responsibility) is long gone.
Keep believing that the ship is not sinking.
I looking here for informations on mobility engineers for layoff. :-(
I like the Cisco free foods and brake rooms to play games with colleagues take coding rest. I like the Cisco but they need more invest in technology strategies so we can dominate. Instead, only spend monies on fake marketings and dei garbage. I like the Cisco but am also worries. We need to have engineering town halls with Chuck ( like a mini gsx but smarter for engineering not low IQ sales) to explain him how we can become the innovation engine for new business model.
Wait till you show up on list. Tell your manager now, you love working and see if they flip.
You are definitely not the only one.
So you were let go almost ten years ago, are still posting on thelayoff's Cisco page, and you're not a troll? Lol move on with your life.
I still like my team and my boss, but from a professional standpoint, it's a dead end with not much to learn. The pay is great (considering my location), and the bonus is great, even with the recent cut.
I'm getting to dislike it. More security, more bureaucracy, more woke and wasteful mandatory trainings. It's just getting harder and harder to get anything done. Every month, there are increasing obstacles and barriers to efficient work. But the worst is the lack of trust.
Although I'm a principal TME, it's becoming harder to retain access to information that helps me do my job. Locked out of big parts of Cisco Docs. CPOL patent system, TAC repositories, SR case details, etc etc. Every time I go on PTO for more than 1 week, I will be locked out of 1-2 systems (no warnings in many cases).
It then takes hours or days to get re-approved for access. Infosec seem to be able to disable your access to anything without warning and there is no consequence for their inability to communicate or for the time you lose.
Frankly, I'm over it.
There are worse places out there. In some teams, there is no shortage of work. My only peeve is that, there is a lack of time for leaning and growth and taking trainings. You always need to keep one leg inside and one leg outside at Cisco. It's just a job at the end of the day and pays the bills. I love what I do, but the company has become cr-p with needing to baby sit everyone to get work done
I've been here for over 15 years. Yes, i drink from the Kool-aid and anyone who knows me is jealous at how much I love my job. I look forward to getting out of bed every morning and will go above and beyond to make sure our partners and customers are getting the best support. If I am laid off, I will never say anything bad about Cisco. There were far too many other places I could have spent these 15 plus years. And I will leave will a solid resume.
i really like Cisco as well. I don't like the constant LR, even though my area is rarely impacted if at all. I think its more about the fact that the company isn't doing well, and we should all want to see it get back on track. Some of the posting on here - really a lot of it, is just pathetic whining and trolling against the company, which is sad. why do i come here? Its rare, but every once in awhile someone will leave a true constructive comment in the pile of dogshit that most leave behind.
I have no complaints
It pays the bills and let me live a certain life style. That’s about it . It is a job and lucky to live in a “socialist “country where your job is not related to healthcare.
Hence lose job equals to sniffing less coke and adopting less animals from the animal shelter but that’s about it
For the folks who think we are "trolls"...
I was probably one of the most pro-Cisco, super-motivated, live the TAC lifestyle people in the early 2000s. I lived this company.
Received a John Chambers signed letter for job well done, just before he left.
Was LR'd shortly after he left, three months after he left.
Keep believing the same can't happen to anyone. It can.
Sadly a big part of my job is migrating customer network topologies over to competitor gear. The one good thing Cisco TAC in 2000s taught me was how to be really good at that process. What a waste for Cisco, and myself really; because I foolishly put faith in our leadership and truly worked just too much, and believed in the culture too much.
I agree with you. This forum does have its fair share of trolls and shtpsters, and probably some competition.
The work itself is is good, my team is great, and while the pay could always be better, I'm generally satisfied with how things are. I've been here for over 8 years, and although I've encountered some toxic teams and leaders, overall, the company has been a good place to work. Fortunately, most of the problematic people have been discovered or left before major events, except for the most recent LR.
It's unfortunate there's so much uncertainty right now—hoping for the best.
50/50 some days but also a lot of trolls in this forum
Do I like most of the people I interact with on a daily basis at Cisco? Yes. Is that enough to make me stay? No.
Chuck, is that you?
I don't think you are, I work in collab and I feel the same way.