What does Cisco do with employees of acquired company.
After acquisition, what has Cisco typically done with the company's employees they purchased?
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Replace them with imports.
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Replace with WITCH
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Safe and Independent for 2 years. After that really up to the VP of that group.
It all depends, I came in through an acquisition and was working in a support function but when I joined Cisco I integrated into the larger support team and was there for 23 years before the inevitable LR got me.
In my experience they mostly acquire relatively mature companies. When we were acquired by C, we were left untouched for years with the sole exception of Sales who were pretty quickly folded into the Cisco sales machine. We did see a good amount of attrition there. Other parts of the original company did slowly fold into larger departments like corporate security, learning. It took 5 years but they finally hit those folks with layoffs. Engineers, PMs and Designers have gone untouched.
As many mentioned, initially they are allowed to operate independently. They are given retention, big bonuses etc. later , if Cisco makes money out of it then they continue to invest with minimal to no layoffs (eg meraki), on other hand if they don’t get good revenue/growth then Cisco leadership takes over and finally starts layoffs (eg appD)
Like with any acquisition, just a matter of time before a massive layoff
Put them in a separate listing.