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Re: Cisco workforce reductions

#211
post #42

Cisco do not have real ai strategy . Routers are routers. Even their ai factory is yet another box just with label nvidia on it . No major investment needed. All that observability tooling around is only benefiting ai wave . They can vibe re-write everything .

Waiting for them to put AI into the Smart Licensing on my routers.

I guess when they said "insert token" they meant "insert quarter" and by "insert quarter" they meant "insert your entire fiscal quarter".

Re: Cisco workforce reductions

#213
post #46

My extremely cynical, but not yet proven wrong view: Tech, more or less, has a group of investors centered around Silicon Valley. Not the only ones, but especially now, the most active. Generally, these folk have a lot of exposure to AI, and probably mostly believe the hype around it. Which means they believe companies using AI should produce better results, which in the current market means short-term cash. So if a…

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I think you make a point that is worthy of discussion, but the first sentence is unnecessarily hostile. The comment you responded to already made a caveat that they might be too cynical.

Re: Cisco workforce reductions

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post #46

My extremely cynical, but not yet proven wrong view: Tech, more or less, has a group of investors centered around Silicon Valley. Not the only ones, but especially now, the most active. Generally, these folk have a lot of exposure to AI, and probably mostly believe the hype around it. Which means they believe companies using AI should produce better results, which in the current market means short-term cash. So if a…

It's not cynical, it's accurate. If you give corporations a free excuse for staff reductions most will grab it with both hands.

Re: Cisco workforce reductions

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post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I think you make a point that is worthy of discussion, but the first sentence is unnecessarily hostile. The comment you responded to already made a caveat that they might be too cynical.

Fair

Re: Cisco workforce reductions

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or maybe you just aren't that good of an engineer (or whatever profession you are into) and find the easiest group to blame on your failures. I found that people who often are quick to judge and group of people in one bucket based on their color/ethnicity/gender/... are often not that bright people and like to focus on directing it on others. Somewhat like MAGA.

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> Indians hire only Indians.

I've worked for Indian managers several times and they all hired non-Indian people.

Re: Cisco workforce reductions

#219
post #35

"I could not be prouder of the growth you delivered" Note the "you delivered"... --- A few lines later "With this, we are making changes today that will result in the reduction of our overall workforce in Q4 by fewer than 4,000 jobs" Rough, bit on the nose no?

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Re: Cisco workforce reductions

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post #35

"I could not be prouder of the growth you delivered" Note the "you delivered"... --- A few lines later "With this, we are making changes today that will result in the reduction of our overall workforce in Q4 by fewer than 4,000 jobs" Rough, bit on the nose no?

This type of corporate behaviour should be highlighted as unacceptable. I’ll personally steer away from anything cisco from now on.
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