If you still enjoy working at Cisco, how long have you been at Cisco, what makes it enjoyable?
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The great people I work with.
Let’s be honest. Only thing that made this place enjoyable is the pay.
10+ years. Work is good.
Place has become too political lately.
3 years,
Hybrid, and a day for me per quarter to start with !!
I’d love to know what some of these orgs are and who some of these leaders are. If you have software jobs there I’d love to see if I can move. If they have any jobs after the LR.
I like working here. It's kind of like high school. Just follow the rules and you're fine
100% remote is a huge benefit for me with young kids. Work life balance is good. I did a lot of sh-t jobs for sh-t pay when I was young so maybe that lets me appreciate a job like this more. I'd say 95% of the people I work with are nice, but only 50% are decent at their job and that number is decreasing. The benefits and pay were great, but they are falling from what I can tell. Bean counters are always gonna take. It does feel like we are past Ciscos heyday. I think 2008 was when the decline started, at least for US based Cisco. If Cisco can bump pay to adjust for the last few years of high inflation I'd be a happy camper, but the markets are showing that probably won't happen for awhile.
Only made it to 3 months and got laid off.
Leaving my last company to come to Cisco was the worse decision I ever made.
20+ years due to great leaders in my chain of command, loving it every day
I like the people I work with and have a good manager. Been here 10 years. Likely not so lucky this round. Have survived 2 before. I hope 3rd time is a charm too. Have had a couple of so-so mgrs but on the whole good.
I'm in a non-technical role so may impact my experience.
Used to be the best job in the world. Increasingly su-ks the last 5-10 years as the politicians, bureaucrats and regulators gain all the power. If I don’t get LR’ed, I’m leaving for good. 18 years.
Honestly, I really joyed my time at Cisco. Was in the last LR but the pay+WLB was great. And the people I worked with too. My actual job was never clear or organized as far as what was needed from me though. Terrible leadership
Go ahead and down vote this post but the truth is a lot of the people responding are the reason Cisco is going through another LR. Seriously... people have second jobs and just at Cisco for health insurance? People don't want to move up because they have to work hard? WTF is wrong with you all - you deserve to be fired. Life isn't a f+#cking handout and the truth is there will likely be good hard working people hit with this LR because of the lazy-as--s milking the system like you. You want to blame someone for this LR, blame the people who are collecting a paycheck and doing little to no work.
25 years & (most of) the people.
15 years
It was enjoyable my first 5 years because I stayed under the radar and didn’t do s-*t. But I got greedy and took a promotion so the last 10 years has been rough but I became numb to it.
WLB is fantastic and so are the benefits. The people are also incredibly nice as well. However, the real world isn't like that, and at any point you can be yanked from this WLB paradise through an LR. It's dangerous to be too comfortable at Cisco, precisely because of how good the WLB is. You're not stretched as an individual.
27 years and still going. Hoping to hit 30 yrs of service. Pay is great, work is easy, 100% remote. Life's good.
Love cisco. Easy to hide and side hustle.
26 years. Great WLB that is practically mandated by my Leader. One of the few positions I've held where teammates truly act as equals and help one another on a daily basis.
Two main options. Hide out (for years!) in mundane tasks (running reports is common) where you are the only person that will do it, and therefore the only one that knows how to do it. OR run to the new shiny object (like AI) to signify you are in the growing area and therefore should not be touched until it comes crashing to the ground a few years later. Kudos to the new compute and "AI" BE for grabbing that one so quickly.
Fully remote , good WLB and you have time to run you own business without worry about health insurance
The sh-t is not spread evenly across Cisco. Some teams have incredible WLB with good compensation. Not my team, but some teams out there.
We’ve had interesting customer usecases to solve and improve the network/internet experience for everyone. In past, before pandemic the flexibility cisco offered was unequalled, but now the that’s the case with almost all orgs