Any insights from SPBU folks on the impending layoffs would be appreciated. What teams/ groups are likely to be impacted in the BU. When the impacted people will be informed?
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my guess for d-day is either 21 or 28 both fridays.
let the blood flow and the innocent be led to the slaughter :(
Climbing up over the carcasses of failed projects and products is a skill that all aspiring director+ types in cisco have mastery on
Rest of time they spend spying on and punishing people via dashboards, rewarding cronies and playing with bugs in scrubber
Our quality of managerial talent has reached rock bottom. Since 2012 its been a long downward spiral
30% opex cut will be a killer blow if true
Even if all older products were hived off to hcl to run through eol and only 2 or 3 newest products were kept it still needs people to develop and test large scale products with 100s of features
As it is the web titans and new sp clients are very demanding both in quality and demand changes to get exactly what they want ...
@V4fyHwt-5vkz: today I have been told by a highly reliable source that SP networking leadership is considering 30% opex cut. That “a lot of work” is due to poor quality and failing products, not because of demand.
SP R&S (I think the proper term is SP networking and software) has a lot of work to day: deadlines are slipping. They can't afford to lay off folks in the next 9 months or so.
Groan, yes, I've gotten six emails in the last 2 days from the top dog about diversity. Seems that they want to "accelerate the careers of our female technical talent". You'd think that if anybody exceptional talent, or showed potential for advancement then accelerating their career might make sense, not just because of their biology??? Errr, nope.
None of the reasons are unknown to line managers but they too have to safeguard their seats and bonus payouts and terrified of the directors wrath so they never pushback and say no
Code quality is a function of design process and time given to do a proper job which never is the case now.
A broken process and constant pressure from upper management to ship code fast at any cost will result in same thing even with a new cast of engineers
Fastpath mavens ought to see some sense that our product use and codebase is not like facebook or google though screaming to be more like google looks good on ppt decks
Just compare the zoo that is ios xr to a new networking oriented os like cumulus. They have just what they need and no more.
I'm hearing it will be focused on engineering
I was reading below about the poor code quality of ncs5500. Guess, it makes sens to focus on engineering.
I wish I was a woman because focus is on diversity, not who is qualified to do the job. Anyways who BU is messed and we are all waiting for the dooms day.
I'm hearing it will be focused on engineering - both in the US and Bangalore. The numbers I've heard are shockingly large. It is not clear when it's coming, but I'm confident we won't have to wait for long.
What about other groups in BU? Ops, Buss Dev, CTO?
Ncs5500 software quality is terrible. Many things seem in half broken state all the time, this was not the case for older proprietary gear ... sometimes i feel its more of a poc box than a solid solution that clients can deploy and use for a 10 year cycle.
Despite the plug and play hype the broadcom sdk and hw is not easy to shoehorn features at scale vs our own asics where we know the microcode to deepest layers.
SPBU still has a function? Most of the talent got wiped out 2 years ago in a LR.
Engineers always take the heat for visionless, lazy, failure managers.
Poor sales, they have to sell buggy software implementing visionless ideas.
So sounds like this time Senior Management is on the chopping block else in Cisco Engineers always take the heat for visionless, lazy, failure managers.
Some are already informed. Some ranking based on unknown metrics/director perceptions i was told — the usual opaque pane of glass
Fair n balanced :)