The previous Cisco ANZ country manager just stated at Citrix Australia as the country VP after being kicked to the kerb along with the hundreds of Cisco ANZ staff every year since 2013.
The strategy is to replace what Cisco considers highly paid staff and replace them with lower paid juniors and skirts (good looking females).
The cost cutting has only achieved lower revenues for product but services.
@sackedbycisco
At least you could check to see who booked the conf room. My invite was to my manager's office. Of course, I knew what was happening. S/He sent a message to the team to watch the earnings call. A few min later I get a meeting invite with no body and a subject of "Quick 1:1". In all my years under this manager, they've never sent me a 1:1 invite. It was always an IM saying come see me when you're free.
Unlike you, I'd had ongoing feedback from my manager that my performance was good. I received my full bonus every year under her/him, so there's no reason to doubt my performance. The only reason given for my cut was that we were the one's whose termination would cause the least impact to the team moving forward and that it was not performance related.
And, truth be told, it may have been true that we were the least impact to the team. There's only one person left at the IC level who has more tenure/tribal knowledge of how things worked and they've got very big shoes to fill when they leave. I still think it was age/cost related rather than least impact. I could name a few others who could have been cut and we could have stepped into their shoes just like they had to step into ours. But they had less seniority, and presumably a lower salary.
My manager set aside the HR script and said s/he was sorry. My team mates still stay in touch and some even provided job postings they heard about, so they were very supportive. Not every team at Cisco was as good as mine was. I've seen bad teams, I've been on a team that started great and then turned toxic, and I've read a lot of posts here about other teams that I'm glad I had nothing to do with.
Good luck in your job search. The grass is greener on the other side. I feel bad for my friends still at Cisco and I'm guessing they'll wish it had been them instead of me when they get a worse package than I got.
Cisco ANZ is definitely a muppet show run by the Swedish chef.
How Cisco sacks you.
You have been performing well and just closed off a big deal worth millions. Good annual performance review.
No on-going feedback ever provided by your spineless manager who is always busy managing up.
One day you get a strange meeting invite for a 1:1 with your manager scheduled for the next day.
You check the meeting room scheduled in the invite and find it was booked by someone from Cisco HR.
Next day at the meeting your gone without any reason offered by your Cisco spineless manager.
Of course your Cisco colleagues are not supportive as they escaped the axe this time. But for how long ?
Mate, it's muppets everywhere these days.
The skirts are in marketing. Doing social media and bogus blogs which no one reads. Invest in you techno capacity not airheads.
Similar story here in Western Europe but possibly without the "skirts". Most definitely without the skirts in fact. Just cheap grads, 95% male, replacing experienced but expensive 40+ year olds. It's not going to end well I fear, but you never know, maybe it's exactly what's needed! I'm 32.
Same story as Cisco everywhere my friend.
Same story as Cisco UK my friend.