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Re: Cisco workforce reductions

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Post by renticulous »

33MHz-i486 wrote: post #16

its sickening that these companies making 10s of Billions in profit annually at 60% gross margins are going to throw their employees that got them there under the bus. layoffs are for at risk companies undergoing restructuring not semi-annual financial engineering of your earnings release I’m not a big collective action proponent historically but in the face of this bs, it might be time.

> that got them there under the bus.

Do you employ construction workers for lifetime after they have built your house?

Re: Cisco workforce reductions

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Post by shell0x »

spike021 wrote: post #82
siren2026 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cisco especially is absolutely full of H1Bs. As someone that has worked for them a decade ago, some of their division are >90% Indian. Those are all good engineers and not dunking on them at all but it should be unacceptable to bring over competing workers on a visa while also laying off so many people.

we were acquired and part of our org moved into cisco HQ. the entire floor were Indian other than our org, and over time our org was filled out with incoming transfers and new hires. i'll never forget some irony in that one of the engineering leaders brought us together for a mini townhall once and praised our "diversity" but by then the percentage of people in the room were basically the same as you described, inclu…

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Re: Cisco workforce reductions

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Post by pjmlp »

This is why you owe nothing to your employer, record revenue with management bonus, and layoffs for those that helped get there.

Those extra hours? Only if the team really needs them.

Naturally this tends to be something only seniors see, thus ageism.

Re: Cisco workforce reductions

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Post by z0mghii »

truncate wrote: post #68
siren2026 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cisco especially is absolutely full of H1Bs. As someone that has worked for them a decade ago, some of their division are >90% Indian. Those are all good engineers and not dunking on them at all but it should be unacceptable to bring over competing workers on a visa while also laying off so many people.

What percent of laid of employees do you think are H1Bs?

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Re: Cisco workforce reductions

#96

Post by OccamsMirror »

denkmoon wrote: post #10
bitmasher9 wrote: post #5

“We are running out of good ideas to execute on, so we are reducing our workforce to a quantity we can utilize.”

but there's still so many bad ideas available to be executed on

I want my LLM powered Firewall that checks with an agent on every connection request! AI powered security is the new hotness!

Re: Cisco workforce reductions

#97

Post by dilyevsky »

holysoles wrote: post #8

Almost bought cisco shares today, glad I didn't. A workplace that values job security is such a motivating factor for employees that I don't think is recognized enough. At a company that conducts layoffs, it feels like you're just waiting for the next one.

They buy a lot of companies then restructure them and that causes these layoffs. I think it’s just normal way of doing business for them. And the stock is up 20% after hours =)

Re: Cisco workforce reductions

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Post by aiscoming »

Barbing wrote: post #86
aiscoming wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that horizontal line is hillarious. I can imagine the discussions with the designers "just put the fucking line there, I dont care how it looks, its important to separate the two sets of people"

If you delete the first one but leave the line above “Board of Directors“, would you mind it? (Edit - I wouldn’t have minded either line, at first glance on mobile, curious if it’s an “all bad” situation for you)

I personally dont mind it, but apple is famous for ruthlesly removing decorative design and trying to make everything a slab of color, and this thin line goes so much against this

Re: Cisco workforce reductions

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Post by heggerd »

spike021 wrote: post #82
siren2026 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cisco especially is absolutely full of H1Bs. As someone that has worked for them a decade ago, some of their division are >90% Indian. Those are all good engineers and not dunking on them at all but it should be unacceptable to bring over competing workers on a visa while also laying off so many people.

we were acquired and part of our org moved into cisco HQ. the entire floor were Indian other than our org, and over time our org was filled out with incoming transfers and new hires. i'll never forget some irony in that one of the engineering leaders brought us together for a mini townhall once and praised our "diversity" but by then the percentage of people in the room were basically the same as you described, inclu…

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