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.
