Attended a leadership event a couple of weeks ago which had a lab exercise. In this exercise, we were the big boss and the scenario given was a red badge's contract would be expiring soon, he's an exceptional employee, a tech lead, team player and there would be significant impact on everyone's workload if he left the unit. The multiple choices varied but the ones that stood out were, 1) convert him to blue badge or 2) let him go. The "correct" answer was to let him go. My teammates and I chose answer 1 and were puzzled why we would let talent like this just go. Unfortunately, that is the culture at Cisco. Love it or leave it.
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I know the team under the so called “Manager” gets treated like sh-- .One side folks are impacted otherwise they are been threatened to obey their orders.pathetic overall
I remember that session. We might have been on the same team choosing that answer.
It’s The People Deal 2.0, Thanks Fran and Maria.
Heard about the same IT team ..senior manager boasting about himself delivering a demoralizing speech in the name of saving them ,looks like he has a bunch of his old time favorites who basically runs the team
Looks like he has been in cisco his whole life still never understood true leadership style
I never understood the whole "Cisco Culture is so great thing". It's total propaganda, and the only ones saying it are the corrupt managers or others attempting to climb to corporate ladder through kissing a-- and backstabbing.
entire Cisco IT should be outsourced to red badges. all the IT folks I dealt with are usually red badges from IBM or Wipro.
IT is filled with the most morally corrupt and unethical leadership. VPs/Directors surround themselves with unqualified friends, the financial reporting in IT and Operations reminds me of Enron.
Yes, its bad in IT. The blue badge reduction is to simply inflate the financial numbers (like revenue per employee, earnings per share) for analysts and stockholders. Next time Cisco buys a company, its a clear signal that those many headcounts will be reduced. And, by the way, red badge are just considered 'expense' and we are so boxed by the legal definitions that they we simply see them as vendors.
Cisco is managed by numbers. Every worker bee, blue or red badge, is simply a tiny number in the spreadsheet.
LR notices going out today across the company. Ops and IT heavily impacted. This has been going on every year, twice a year for over 3 years.
WTF....
Why was it the right answer? Did they explain?