Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

There has been an alarming decline in the overall

Quality of features in ios xr and no amt of sanity , testing and or precommit gates is helping because the bones are weak now. I do not see sanity catching real issues, sanity scripts themselves break daily and hold up code commits

Reasons i think are

• 1000s of features kept being added with no refactoring and fixing the base infra to cope

• many features are combinations of N components owned by N teams and nobody is able to understand the full flow , control the overall architecture of xr and potential issues, let alone fix them . Things break all the time when compX makes a chance that exposes some condition compY never expected. Badic components are still known to crash code that was written years ago keep breaking under new uses cases or scale

Yes new hw keeps coming but the same sw on top

Directors and managers are more into managing numbers and adding more process than encouraging people to take more time and do detailed designs. Because fbook/google updates their engine code weekly or daily, so must we.

Architects are into next big things than reviewing and helping current work

Perhaps this is how it all ends .... when codebases become too large and tough to maintain

CCBU is a bunch of jokers, who are surviving by fooling the management. Let's not talk about them. Time will teach them lesson.

Haaaaaa Rupes. How many rupes does it take to fly round trip to London, UK?

Correctly mentioned below. In Bangalore there is huge opportunity in CCBU and Cisco. Team is very happy over here with the hikes and promotion distributed.

All this is fake news. In Bangalore we are getting minimum 15-20% hike and promotions also. I work in CCBU and just returned from Australia vacation. Two other of my friends have been to SA and EU. Great to work here.

Nobody has ever seen the June and May chopping list. Oh, these predictions here.

It is July. No chopping in sight.

Soylent Green is People Deal

so....where's the announcement then if it's happening?

Execs have spent better part of last decade wasting billions of $$ on useless silver bullet acquisitions rather than build and reward internal teams. Even recently i heard one blessed denizen of a recent 3.7b $ aquisition got 1000 rsu and a fat hike.

Our biggest innovation is scrubber ... managers spend all their time on it , updating scrub notes, terrified of backlogs, queue depth and mttr - just line managers with a whip to work the assembly line workers to the bone. opaque reviews now depend on their whims.

Fresh "People Deal" mass sacrifice to appease the Gods.

That’s so funny. Cisco is a job not a career. Like McDonald’s I guess.

I saw a list of names in one of the Sr Directors car, saw about 14 names which I don't reckon but most seem to be white males. Wanted to take a video but my phone battery was dead.

I have seen ominous signs like VPs having meetings with HR person holding what seemed like a pad with a list. what list we can all guess. VPs only meet with HR for large scale hiring or firing!

Forget LWR. Watch out ALP.

I want to be LR'ed during GSX so I can drink 'n drink 'n drink on Cisco's dime.

Can you make sure my GSX roommate is LRed , so I get my own room?

When are GSX hotels normally booked?

No wonder they have not asked us to book GSX hotels yet, eh? For the people who may not make it there....

People who are not capable of getting job outside only cries about layoff and complain ..

So Keep calm , work on your strengths , look for other opportunities and move on instead of crying here like a kid !

No mention to f LWR?!

Is it good time to Join Cisco?

Typical complainers on here. Work for another company if you don't like constant layoffs.

Cisco is a job, not a career.

Looks like some managers already gave hint to some teams officially ..fingers crossed !

I have heard of few sr directors let go / parked into placeholder positions already

a uneasy atmosphere to work in, not knowing extent of future massacres