Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

Totally agree with @JMC0tLh-yek. I was an extremely high performer that burns the midnight candles at both ends to drive and make an impact at Cisco. After seeing this bad LR, how imprecise this LR has been and see hardworking colleague being impacted, I am taking a good portion of what could have been Cisco's time to ensure that I will not on the next LR list. Sad to see that instead of just focusing on Cisco, I have to be distracted with these things and reduce my productivity. Company's culture should be to eliminate politics and help us do our jobs for the company instead of worrying about these distractions.

In my team, lot of team members donot work at all but they are top higher management relative and there are thousands of people who are TL but donot work

There are hundreds of people managers in Agile world who doesnot understand technically

Lot of politics !!!!!!!! heard some people managers receive money to promote people and hire from outside by telling u go from here and come back to my team within 1year same grade !!!!! no one cares !!!!!! no one catches ......whoever working from long time are not worth of technical .....

Cisco is a declining business. It's revenue will not grow again. Remember double digit growth, how about -2% growth in FY16? For every 1% decline in network revenue, Cisco has to grow at a huge rate in other tech just to make up the difference. The only way to keep the shareholders happy now, which don't forget is who the leadership really work for, is to increase dividend payments. To do this they need to continually cut costs and hope that one of their other technologies picks up to cover the hole networks is leaving. But which one? Security won't be as big as they are hoping as you'd have to be a moron to buy all your security needs from one company and at that a company who never created the tech, just acquired it. Everything else is declining too. The move to software is a sham, as not a single leader has come from a software background and you would think if they were serious, that would be a must.

Unfortunately no one in Cisco is used to working for a company with declining revenues, but this year is the start of what's to come. If you are desperate to stay, start a-- kissing now, however there are plenty of fast growing, great tech companies out there to work for, if your any good.

The "corporate culture" ship has sailed and the company you are looking for is never coming back. The yearly LR's have created the atmosphere you describe and it is now entrenched. What was time spent on productivity, collaboration and teamwork has been replaced with people looking over their shoulder, kissing azz and hoping the axe doesn't fall on them.