How safe is your job at Cisco?
Your Engineering job at Cisco in India has a risk score of 56/100 — on the watchlist. That's riskier than 91% of the 68 tech companies we track.
The most recent reported layoff hit around 4,000 roles on May 13, 2026.
Employee sentiment is on edge and trending nervous (based on 3 employee votes plus data signals).
Check the detailed report below for the full breakdown.
No Engineering- or India-specific signals for Cisco yet — showing the company-wide outlook.
Current risk score
0 = safer outlook, 100 = higher layoff risk. Small figure = 7-day change.
Latest confirmed layoff
Confirmed May 13, 2026 · ~5% of staff · layoffs.fyi
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1 confirmed layoff event(s), 4,000 affected in last 180 days
3 of 3 employees voting nervous or panicked, with nothing announced and no first-hand report yet
4,000 confirmed layoffs in last 180 days — about 4.4% of the workforce
Recent layoff events
Latest disclosed workforce actions affecting this company.
EPS
Est: $1.17
Revenue
EPS
Est: $1.04
Revenue
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Cisco layoff risk analysis
Cisco risk trend over the last 90 days
Across the last 83 days of scoring, Cisco's layoff risk climbed 2 points, moving from 54 on June 6, 2026 to 56 today. It peaked at 56 on August 27, 2026 and bottomed out at 38 on July 23, 2026, a 18-point spread over the period. That leaves Cisco in the elevated band today, and the size of the swing means the current reading is worth re-checking weekly rather than treating as settled.
Cisco layoff history
PinkSlip has recorded 5 confirmed layoff events at Cisco, running from September 2023 to May 2026. Together they account for roughly 14,421 disclosed roles, or about 16.0% of an estimated 90,000-person workforce. Scoring uses that share rather than the raw number, because the same headcount means very different things at a 10,000-person company and a 200,000-person one. Source: layoffs.fyi. Recent events weigh more than older ones — each decays on a half-life instead of dropping out on a fixed date — so the most recent filing on May 13, 2026 carries the most weight in today's score.
How Cisco compares to other tech employers
Cisco (CSCO) is a Networking company tracked as part of the NASDAQ-100 and currently scores 56 out of 100, where 0 is the safest reading and 100 the riskiest. That is riskier than 91% of the 68 tech employers PinkSlip tracks. Over the past week the score climbed 16 points, and over the past month it climbed 18 points.
What is driving the Cisco score
Cisco's score is driven mainly by the public record — confirmed layoff filings and the financial and news signals around them. No crowd reports have come in over the past 30 days, so nothing is currently corroborating or contradicting that record from the inside. Absence of reports is deliberately not treated as evidence of safety — a quiet company and an unobserved one look identical in public data, so the model never discounts risk for silence alone. At this level the practical read is not "a layoff is coming" but "keep options warm": refresh your CV, keep your network active, and re-check this page weekly, since the score is recomputed every morning.
Cisco layoff risk — frequently asked questions
Has Cisco had layoffs recently?
PinkSlip has tracked 5 layoff events at Cisco in the past year, the latest on May 13, 2026, totalling roughly 14,421 disclosed roles. Undisclosed headcounts are excluded from that total, so treat it as a floor rather than a full count.
How is the Cisco layoff risk score calculated?
PinkSlip blends 10+ public data sources — historical layoff events, quarterly earnings, hiring and news signals, and anonymous crowd reports — into a single 0–100 layoff risk score. Signals are weighted by how predictive they have been historically, and each one decays on a half-life as it ages rather than expiring on a fixed date — so a layoff announced last month weighs roughly twice as much as the same layoff two months earlier, and fades out gradually instead of disappearing overnight.
How often does the Cisco risk score update?
Every day. An automated job re-scrapes the public sources each morning and recomputes every tracked company's score, so the 7-day movement shown above always compares against freshly ingested data. Quarterly earnings refresh on each company's own reporting schedule.
Where does PinkSlip's Cisco layoff data come from?
The layoff events listed above are sourced from layoffs.fyi. Across all companies PinkSlip aggregates state WARN notices, layoffs.fyi, quarterly earnings filings, and layoff coverage from major business and tech outlets. Everything is public data — no employer submissions, and no paywalled sources.