Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

Stop buying everything that moves and start investing seriously in High quality R&D

SEs and TAC:

Hire engineers not trainees, keep vets that have a proven track record instead of firing everything above 50.

Indian Tac sux , close it

Invest on US or Eu tac not that good but infinitely better than Indian tac and can actually speak English.

Software Dev.

Stop the agile b---s--- (agile only works if the programmers are not braindead) and buzzword gimicks actually invest in quality assurance and good programmers , no Indian pajeet smartassery pushing unfinished bug ridden products.

Making Cisco break again.

Only have sales team and maintenance engineers in Cisco as there is no scope for new product development in Cisco. The company's gene is to acquire companies and grow.

Fire all other R&D VP, Directors, CTO, Architects and SE who waste their time resulting in burning cash.

Sorry, but we have to keep firing all the dead weight. E.g. 20 years as cisco SE who can't understand that he should learn a little bit about Juniper, Nokia, etc. because "cisco are the best, the customer is an idiot to listen to Juniper/Nokia/Huawei" ... he's useless. It's a totally different world.

I would put engineering leadership under an eviction vote... top 20% performers in Engineering get to vote for which Engineering leaders to keep. Senior sales engineers who have proven an ability to keep up with emerging technologies, are allowed to veto product manager evictions, because frankly most engineers don't understand what their product managers do all day, but good SE's know.

Fire all PSS. Eviscerate the role from existence. Force the product managers to actually make it possible to sell their products, and move the handful of good PSS into local field sales roles.

Go trawl through Innovation Central or whatever it's called today, and fire all the people who have obviously wasted a lot of time on super super retarded ideas.

Now we've cleaned up a bit...

Actually invest in new products, rather than wait for customer after customer after customer to beg us to do something... that happens... it's sad... and there are many good ideas internally that never get past a PoC because "I can see that might fix a problem, but where will the $$ come from?"... seriously, put it out there and sales will tell you if it's valuable or not.

I’d invest in cricket farms in India.

I would aggressively fund new innovation, challenge groups that lag the market with contests and other incentives to leapfrog competitors, increase recognition and visibility for those who truly bring excellence to the market, and focus on doing a better job of truly serving verticals instead of trying to make a "one-size-fits-all" solution for our bread and butter businesses. IoT is doing a great job of market segmentation and can be a beacon for the rest of the company.

I would focus one the following:

1) Where to eat lunch

2) Play more on-line math games to sharpen my mind

3) Give employees credits toward yoga classes

4) Encourage microagressions

5) Drive cloud and software solutions, sell off our HW business

6) Spend more time with the family

Sack all the folks who work at Cisco but moan about it in this site whilst taking Cisco's salary!

I wud make it against the rules to employ your entire family (but close family - brothers, sisters, kids, etc - is okay)

I just wanna dance!!

Operations: Flatten the organization. Layers of corruption and fraud, millions wasted without any oversight or transparency

^^ make a rule that all managers and directors and PE/DE have to code on active projects 50% of the time as part of the project team.

slash number of meetings by 80% - people have made a career of moving between meetings and organizing meetings and "interlocks" and "ops reviews" all day, every day.

Sales: Axe EMEAR.

• Sales: Exceptional shape, do not change a thing

• Engineering: Hire an experienced CTO externally, Cisco can no longer build or maintain products

• Operations: Flatten the organization. Layers of corruption and fraud, millions wasted without any oversight or transparency

• Finance: Hire people with a background in finance. The level of incompetence is startling