Run like the wind. Don't consider this place for employment. You will lose your sanity and self worth all do to the psychobabble from ELT, HR people deal and having no clue about where you stand with your manager. One day he tells you how great you're doing, the next day you're on the street.
Smokescreens and BS rule this joke of a company.
I look forward to the day when this company is divested
One day he tells you how great you're doing, the next day you're on the street.
It could be just that the manager was full of BS, or someone several levels above him or her told them to kick you to the curb and they couldn't say anything from the time they found out until the time they had to tell you.
I'm pretty certain that my manager was in the latter group.
I keep in touch with my old team. I haven't had the guts to ask if anyone's thinking about leaving, but they all say things are pretty crazy and the workload has increased due to the cuts to the team in Aug and delivery deadlines have not changed.
Managers are having to make excuses for poor performance by people who suddenly had to pick up tasks they didn't handle before and were not ready to handle now. In some cases, it's a shame that good people are getting tasks they have no background in and have to work to figure it out. In some cases, it's just poor work ethic and/or sheer incompetence. The sad thing is, the poor performance is now becoming the normal.
I'm glad to be gone. The new job has many of the same stresses. Upgrade this, rollout that, fix this other thing, and we need it all yesterday. But, at least the people here want to be here and enjoy their job. The toxicity of Cisco in general is infecting even the good teams that enjoyed what they did.
I got LR-ed in Aug last year. It took me 2 months to find a new job. But I feel whatever happened that happened for good as otherwise I wasting my career in cisco. I talk to my remaining friends there and they are too layzy too look around. But the day they get hit, they will come to know of the reality
I got LR'ed back in August decided to check in with an old mate to see how things are going. After a few sips of his coffee he said he could not take it anymore his new manager is micromanaging the team and the team morale is at an all time low. He said no one feels safe and most don't care about the LR package like before. I am glad I am no longer there and less stressed out at my new job.