Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

Cisco Worth IT?

Every year Cisco employees, dedicated ones, push their family and personal life to the side for making Cisco a success and a profitable company. Cisco, in turn, generously rewards hard work, but to have to relive this torment every year with a candy coded reduction of force term and better said throw people to the curb due to poor company management is disgusting. Does Cisco Care; look at their past decade track record.

How do you plan your life, buy a house, have a family and so on if you have no faith in your company and if you will not have a job from year to year? It is demoralizing to all in the company when good people with excellent performance are let go. It used to be a company you could hold your head high and be proud to say who you work for. Not anymore.

Other than money WHY STAY AT CISCO? Why trust what the CEO says? Does Cisco really care about your Mental health and the people that makce Cisco grerat? You are means to your end and their profitability staying with them and trusting in their messages. Cisco is becoming good for one thing, a big paycheck, and experience. Those people saved, the leftovers, your day is coming at Cisco. Plan now, save your soul and kick Cisco to the curb before they break your dreams. Husband of a laid of Employee.

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Post ID: @OP+VZyN0a0

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Cisco is hiring GRADE 4 and laid off GRADE 10 GRAD2 11 AND MANAGERS ....CHEAP LABOR n BONUS FOR MARIA MARTINEZ

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Post ID: @1fwc+VZyN0a0

the funny thing .....bangalore India is getting thr bootss. some indians are getting their notice Wednesday right after their budha religion holiday ddawali.

also some Managers and their directors and one VP of CX got laid off 2 years agoi from Net App and got hired by Cisco..these poeple brought the mentality of audacity and hire H1B1 VISA GRADE 4 doing jobs for grade 8 10 .....hey Net App are you hiring laid off Cisco poeple?

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Post ID: @1lnh+VZyN0a0

My wife just got laid off too, and we are devastated. We're attempting to keep positive, but had I known a company like Cisco was like this - I would have planned long-ago. Either back to my mom's house (not my wife's mom, as she died last year) - or homeless.

THANKS CISCO!

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Post ID: @uss+VZyN0a0

Try to stay positive those that are impacted... I went through this back in 2016 after a 16 year run, but because of my network and keeping skills relevant, I was back 3 months to the day after my last day. Did a year in the job I was hired into and now in a better position. Essentially ended up having a 3 month paid vacation. Also have heard many finding success at other companies... stay persistent, do the right thing, and MOST IMPORTANTLY HAVE A PLAN (aka. money in the bank) if the shoe does drop.

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Post ID: @azf+VZyN0a0

Cisco is a dead cat bouncing. Younger companies don’t do their network the same way. Not a lot of Cisco gear. Cisco is this generation’s Sun Microsystems.

Of the 14 senior executives (ELT) from 18 months ago, 9 have changed. The remaining are in unimportant positions (HR, Legal, Finamce)

I find out my fate in an hour. But to the OP’s point, why spend 3-4 months of the year in emotional crisis on whether you will still be employed?

It’s the best job market since before the internet. Literally.

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Post ID: @hkz+VZyN0a0

FWIW, I look over my shoulder at Cisco every day; have I added value, and am I doing things that are consistent with the changes Cisco NEEDS to make to remain relevant (let alone GROW)? I am a mid-senior level resource with a background in traditional IT (where it's all about the blinking lights). I have to evolve and take the opportunities I get (and Cisco is amazing about offering training and certification resources across architectures).

I just got an "all clear" call from my manager. I was hopeful, but unsure, about being impacted. It is just business. I may be impacted at another time. I have a family, and I have given much to Cisco, but I would not blame this company for laying me off if I was deemed to not be part of its future. Many of us (employees at all levels, thanks to stock programs) are Cisco stockholders, and the value (and continued viability of my Cisco stock, and YOURS, is at stake).

My highest priority is to DO THE RIGHT THING. Cisco has never steered me to do anything less than that. After that, my priority is to help Cisco retain and grow it's value, even if it means I get cut one day. So I will be back here when that happens, saying, "oh well, it was my time..."

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Post ID: @jzx+VZyN0a0

What makes any other big company different? Welcome to capitalism at its finest.

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Post ID: @gun+VZyN0a0

Survived an LR earlier this year by finding a new internal position. Tenure with the company goes back to the 90's. When wide swaths are cut, individual employee contribution are not taken into consideration. Think of it as a twisted take on planned obsolescence.

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Post ID: @ure+VZyN0a0

I 100% agree with your note, why trust Cisco CEO ?

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