Who wants to work in palace where the reality is layoffs every qtr since 2008.
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Cisco doesn't want talent, merely the cheapest bodies possible. MM is paid $19 million annually.
Ceo has made mental health a priority
So kind of him and shows great EQ
https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/ciscos-ceo-sent-an-extraordinary-email-to-all-75000-employees-heres-what-happened-next.html
Who wants to leave forever? Me.
It is a gone Tech company like Nortel/Lucent of 1990s.
I was in a campus hiring team to one of the iits. The team itself was a heavyweight full of directors and pe. But the response from cse/ee students was not good. In the end we only got some mid to low rung shortlisted candidates and of that the ones we took were barely passable. I feel sure they wont stick around. But its a top level directive to visit iits and project our brand or whatever is left of it. In the end i felt kind of bad us making career growth promises we cannot keep to innocent students.
Cisco markets itself as a tech company to Wall Street. We are essentially a bank that acquires and sells products/ services. Visit Security, IoT, or Collaboration... mostly sales people pretending to be engineers.
True. I have two juniors from IIT Bombay (B.Tech. Electrical) who are 8.5 GPA holders and were without campus job. When I asked them to join Cisco, they refused it upright. They read company reviews, products and participate in Software Exhibitions where they found none of Cisco products are future proof and there is not much tech work left in some products where Cisco is leader like switches.
On the other hand, I have one of my friend who is MBA from Wharton and was keen to join the strategy group. The reason he gave is the group where he was trying is acquisitions and mergers in which Cisco is good.
So, to summarise, Cisco is good for Business persons (sales, managing balance sheets, acquisitions, etc.) but poor in Technology jobs, though we claim to be Tech company. So, we will never be getting good engineers in coming days. I myself strive hard to get IITians, but even a few of them who join, leave in a year or two. Finally, I have to hire contractors to get some vanilla Engineers and get the job done. At the end it is bugs that are solved here.