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What about the test in general tho?
IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)
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Haven’t taken it yet
2 things:
Nobody is spending money on new equipment and further nobody is in the office to test/install said new equipment.
The main devices you need for remote work are firewalls to set up remote access VPNs. Cisco's firewall product is some shyt
They’re looking funny in the light
They’re looking funny in the light
Cisco is in a pretty good place. The Nexus 9ks are a good product and ISE which is their network access/BYOD product is doing numbers. My last 3 jobs, all big government entities, all have been rolling out large ISE deployments.
It's just that stuff doesn't move the needle when everybody is home.
Surely there’ll be a lasting impact now that enterprises are becoming more open to remote work? No?
Anybody here have any experience with VDI deployments?
Where I'm at, there's a lot of talk about deploying something like that since we have so many people working from home. No experience with it myself so at this point I'm
Where I'm at, there's a lot of talk about deploying something like that since we have so many people working from home. No experience with it myself so at this point I'm
Not to mention Cisco's gear is buggy as hell with tons of security holes.2 things:
Nobody is spending money on new equipment and further nobody is in the office to test/install said new equipment.
The main devices you need for remote work are firewalls to set up remote access VPNs. Cisco's firewall product is some shyt
More companies are moving to zero trust networks using Zscaler and Akamai than setting up internal VPN's. I look for all these vendors selling network gear to start falling like dominoes.
Hopefully moving to the graveyard shift soon for the remainder of my service desk time. No one calls in and you get paid more. Since I'm naturally a night owl this will make the job more tolerable.
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We had an internal call at Cisco last week and they announced they are going to cut 1B in costs over the next couple quarters.
Phase one, they are going to try to get rid of everybody over 55 by offering early retirement or just laying them off.
Phase two, they are going to target a groups for pay cuts.
Phase three they are just going to lay off tons and tons of people. The areas that will probably get hit hard are hardware r&d, route/switch, service provider, sdwan, etc
I say this to say...if you are just starting out don’t make the mistake cisco did and not follow the trends. Traditional IT will be dead soon, so switch your focus to dev ops, cloud, automation or security. That’s the only thing that will be left standing. Don’t bother with shyt like CCNA route/switch, A+, or anything else that is “legacy” IT that takes months of labs or studying. Skip that and start looking into something like AWS or GCP. Start trying to wrap your head around containers. Start dabbling with python or understanding APIs.
Phase one, they are going to try to get rid of everybody over 55 by offering early retirement or just laying them off.
Phase two, they are going to target a groups for pay cuts.
Phase three they are just going to lay off tons and tons of people. The areas that will probably get hit hard are hardware r&d, route/switch, service provider, sdwan, etc
I say this to say...if you are just starting out don’t make the mistake cisco did and not follow the trends. Traditional IT will be dead soon, so switch your focus to dev ops, cloud, automation or security. That’s the only thing that will be left standing. Don’t bother with shyt like CCNA route/switch, A+, or anything else that is “legacy” IT that takes months of labs or studying. Skip that and start looking into something like AWS or GCP. Start trying to wrap your head around containers. Start dabbling with python or understanding APIs.
What are their severance packages looking like? I would imagine they won't be that generous.
How is Cisco going to be able to support existing customers after all these layoffs?
Are you going to switch fields away from Networking? I would say move to Cybersecurity but I'm seeing the first slowdown in hiring since like 2016. Barely any jobs open and the ones that are expect you to know everything.
It’s not looking good at all. They bought a bunch of cloud companies (dozens) which has been lifeline for them
I dunno what the packages look like. They haven’t really said anything about it. Based on the past lay offs I’d guess six months severance and a lump sum payout to cover health insurance premiums for a year or two.
I think I’ll avoid the layoffs this round. I’ve been shifting to automation over the past couple years and I hear our groups will be safe for now. But I’ve been really trying to switch gears and focus on AWS EKS lately. I think I’m probably leaving Cisco once Covid calms down. Hopefully that’s 2021 or 22 at the latest.
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