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Re:Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees by mmagin on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @04:04PM (#12307942)
Look at it this way: why would a lot of the best engineers want to work at Cisco? Maybe when they were the company they were 20 years ago, but today?
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Re:Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees by cwilkes on Thursday August 18, 2016 @10:10AM (#12312559)
Do actual engineers go to work for Cisco? It looks like they just buy up R&D and then monetize the hell out of it.

Which isn't to say it is a bad strategy. Seems to have worked for a while now.

It would be interesting to see the lifespans of people that went to work for Cisco vs those there by an acquisition.

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