I am in a final stage of interview. If got an offer, is this the best time to get into Cisco?
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You've probably come to the worse website to ask that question if you are looking for positivity and motivation, lol Good Luck with your interview and if you get a offer, I'd say go for it. You can always leave the company if you didn't like your experience, but judge it for yourself...
If you’re homeless, yes — take the job.
The question is why would they hire someone from the outside if we are laying off multiple Senior Product Managers?
I think this is a troll post. OP, post the job listing here if you want real advise. Every BU and org is different at Cisco.
I can't imagine a worse tech company (other than IBM and Oracle) to be a (Sr.) Prod Mgr in. You're ki-ling your career by coming here. Go to a more modern technology company for that sort of role. Not to mention the quarterly layoffs...
I moved from another big company to cisco and I regret every second of it, too many layoffs, people are not motivated to work, company is in downward spiral. Only accept a job at cisco if it really makes financial sense, but if you do remember that even if in a permanent role you may be without a job within 6 months.
No. Cisco lays off every few quarters like clockwork. If you come from a relatively responsible, growing company that doesn't do quarterly layoffs, you will be consumed of constant worry at Cisco. When creating the layoffs lists, managers don't even know who is impacted on their team some of the time.
Many people who have been with this company for several years are numb to the amount of layoffs. And if they are impacted, attempt to come back to play more hunger games. I honestly don't understand it, but to each their own.
There is never a "best" time to join Cisco. For someone who has been here for 4 years almost, believe me. But it's a paycheck
Is your name Belushi by any chance?
It really depends on the product and BU. There are some interesting and high growth teams that aren’t affected as much by all the cisco news and changes. Just have to find the high performing ones
No one with a brain would consider joining Cisco now,
Yeap -best time to see the true face of Cisco.
Take notes and try to assess later if what was said is what was done.
We have been trough quite a lot cycles of buy a new product, destroy it, layoff people who worked on it and blame them for Cisco's errors
So try to figure out where in that cycle the product you will manage is.
Also try to as--s if your experience after you have managed that product and nothing else for 10Y is transferable to anything else and it is not Cisco specific and for that reason garbage when you are done here
Lol