Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

GSSO ENG is a mess, lots of great talent already left the building. Ki-ling specialists and putting so much pressure on the GSSO SEs to be experts in all products was crazy. The products are horribly integrated (i.e. not integrated as a platform). Thus, each solution must compete with established (and more niche) players that have focused and SEs that can go deep on their solutions. Instead, GSSO SEs have to compete at 30,000 feet.

Incubation makes little sense, they should be specialists, but instead they're tasked with GTM work, training the field, testing new features. To the others' points, they don't actually do any "selling".

Good luck competing against the stellar SEs that know their stuff DEEP at Zscaler, Okta, Crowdstrike, Proofpoint, PAN, etc. No help from partners either, MS Partners can own the technical sales and deployment, Cisco has no partners that can help with security sales and/or deployments.

Cisco makes security products? News to me.

The GSSO Engineering VP has made continuous misinformed decisions that has penalized us in sales. JH, KO and the incubation teams are not helpful. I concur with the OP that the incubation teams regularly say “no” to the field even on the solutions they cover. They have put too many solutions on the SEs while the incubation teams get to focus on one solution and dictate what they will do and won’t do with that one solution. What a joke. TS has no idea what is going on. He needs to be LRd.

The sales vp?! He just got here

Did this VP gave any road map or solution how this can be achieved ?
Or just his fantasy ?

Problem is the middle/FLM management team not passing correct information to the upper. They are a bunch of 'YES' man. Everything is workable no problem and push down mission impossible to the field engineer.
I used to see Director demand hourly report to developers for release without customer, this is one example of our leader quality

I saw VP name in LR list. Time to move on.