Rumor says layoffs will or are about to occur in SP networking. The group of folks who “deveoped” NCS5500 has run the business to the ground. They seem to be able to always find execuses and blame marketing, sales, support and everyone else for their business misfortunes.
Any more info on this?
The neighbor-building 23, "Polaris", is hiring like crazy. No worries, SP folks. You will be given the chance to run down Enterprise BU as well.
There are now “CTO” execs at about 3 levels of SP. It’s an amazingly over managed BU.
BTW, a director confirmed a that budget hit coming to SP. The scale isn’t confirmed yet, but there are fears it could be massive (i.e. profoundly change the business). Timing not yet confirmed either, they might hold fire to try and get the best result for Q4, but look out after that.
A new wunderkid has been hired from goog under yk to lead sp transformation efforts in cloud/big data/programability etc
I predict a tenure of 12 months
Has the cto office ever delivered anything that became a product and earned good money ?
Seems like a fairly cushy gig experimenting with wrappers around open source sw, doing poc , attending meetups and conferences, writing blogs and whitepapers, managing visibility with the overlords ...
@TclACyk-ktu Plus I'd want a router without any backdoors :)
Yeah - the numbers due in a few hours - keep your ears open.
It's a real political skill to know when to drop something just before it becomes a liability, but not too soon so that you look disloyal. There's plenty of blame to go around on the 5500, and some of the people now pointing fingers were in on it at the start, but are now joining the witch hunt. The people still hanging in there, trying really hard to make it work, will be the ones executed.
One problem is the broadcom chips are very hard to work with and debug compared to our own npus ... quality is anyway poor atop that issue
We slept for years and let folks like broadcom make better npus and commoditize the market
Now everyone has a good enough router and wants it free :)