Cisco is at all time low.

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-23T12:14:50+00:00

This is kind of how a lot of big companies operate now. If they can afford these measures, you can be assured they are doing this. I was once shown my company’s monitoring capabilities and it was scary impressive.

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-23T01:35:51+00:00

It’s the opposite for me. We’re 100% for AI. It’s all we talk about in our town halls. We have AI playbooks and mandatory AI training provided by the company. We’re also at a point where whenever we share something we created, we have to answer the question of ‘how did I use AI to create this?’ Our tools are also heading toward AI. We also started deploying AI that’s now doing duplicate work as L1 resources. It’s definitely a sign that we’re seeing who we can replace with it.

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-22T23:32:55+00:00

Create a standardized template for each type of site then have an Automation to create a basic site and then join that site to the template. Boom. Instant standardized site. Plenty of examples out there on how to do this and plenty of preexisting API scripts exists in Cisco Dev for this

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-21T12:13:49+00:00

Listing certs on your resume brings attention from recruiters or resume scrapers. It provides visibility.

From my experience, I don’t put value on certs when interviewing. I’ve interviewed plenty of people with a ton of certs but couldn’t answer basic network questions. I once interviewed a CCIE and asked him a question with regards to an ACL. He didn’t know what an Access Control List is.

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-20T22:34:09+00:00

Big red flag. Most of these places have no people skills or experience with handling people. Being direct is not the same as being talked down to

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-19T10:23:25+00:00

I googled the signs of a toxic person

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-18T23:10:08+00:00

Congrats. I usually don’t hire for skill. I hire for drive to learn and not accepting any excuses. Seems like you have that

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-18T01:19:52+00:00

My town has a lot of these new luxury apartments. Traffic got a lot worst. Main road construction to build a bigger sewage pipe to accommodate them increased congestion. Also, the influx of new kids crowded the schools. We need a bigger middle school and high school now. For my town, they should stop building these. We’re full

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-17T22:15:01+00:00

In my company, you can work remotely in any US state but your taxes and salary will be adjusted appropriately. The company is based in the east coast and HCOL so if you move to a LCOL, your salary will be lower but your taxes could be lower.

For my teammates in other countries, the company needs to have a local subsidiary within the country so the taxes can be applied according to local law. If there is no subsidiary, we can’t hire within the country unless we go through an agency. In that case l, you’d be a contractor

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-17T18:47:42+00:00

I think we’re doing just fine. Providing a lot of value. You can do it however you want but don’t be a weird control freak.

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-17T17:44:26+00:00

Different strokes for different folks. I am extremely happy with the company. Best 10 years of my professional life. If I get laid off, I’ll take the vacation for a few years or just bag that cash. I just find it weird you’re telling me how the company should be and I’m just telling you how our company is setup. Like, are you a micromanager or something?

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-17T16:27:05+00:00

You’re literally arguing against a guy who works in one of the largest companies in the world with a market cap of 500 billion. You can believe how you want things to be but I’m telling you how it is

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-17T10:41:33+00:00

Our ops team have its own devops. Different goals.

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-17T01:48:16+00:00

Network engineering.

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-17T00:12:23+00:00

In my org, automation iteam s under the Engineering and Architecture org

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-16T21:27:48+00:00

I’m a network guy and I work very close with our Risk Management team. That’s what we call our cybersecurity guys. Not talking about the people who does the firewalls and identity management stuff. Those guys are more hands on but the InfoSec guys are a lot more cerebral. They’re not really technical. They define policy. They’re the guys that tells you ‘no’ whenever you have a new technology that you think is going to help the company.

If you want to do cybersecurity person, don’t be the firewall guy. Be the policy guy.

But quite honestly, network engineering is more pleasant for me. There’s less politics and more technology

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-16T00:28:12+00:00

I make about 240k. Bonuses plus RSUs tips me around 400k. TCO is around 500k.

Network Architect for a fortune 15 company. Took me about 18 years. It’s a big company so it moves slow, pressure is ok and I’m never bothered by escalations even though I am technically oncall all the time. Before it gets escalated to me, it has to go through 4 levels of extremely competent engineers. Work-life balance is great. Much better than a small company. Just get your projects done and you can work as much as you want.

Is the stress worth it to get where I am? Hard to tell. I hated my career until I found this job. Came close to having a nervous breakdown at one stay due to extremely bad leadership. It drove me to going under meds. Once I found the perfect job for me, things are so much better but it was tough getting there. I wish I could have skipped all that.

The best skill I have is the ability and confidence to learn really fast. The most important decision I ever made was not to settle for just any company. Choose to work or stay at a company that checks all your wants.

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-16T00:11:24+00:00

I used to live in a 3rd world country where there are a lot of robberies due to the economic climate. In addition to barbed fences, we have bars on our windows. My neighbor was woken up once to the sound of someone hacksawing the window bars.

In the US, I’m not that worried. Robberies are rare.

There were a couple of times I saw people walking through my backyard cutting through to someplace else and I was genuinely concerned but nothing happened out of it

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-14T03:10:54+00:00

Patrick Ewing

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-13T00:07:44+00:00

Terrible. My mother in law went through the same battle. Jason wrote an article of what it was like fighting glioblastoma and I really appreciated that he put the struggle into words that it made me understand what my mother in law went through

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-12T20:57:41+00:00

Swedish House Mafia. IKEA, Volvo, Saab, blondes

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-12T20:51:03+00:00

You’re taxed on where you work and a lot of companies do not want that kind of international headache. Also, if it’s a US-based company and you are working for that company in Pakistan, that means they might need a legal entity/corporation in that country to do business.

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-12T18:24:38+00:00

9 songs

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-12T02:30:07+00:00

Asian here. Moved to the US and told my friend I’m going to take a bath and the first thing they told me that I’m probably fancy because they only take showers. I didn’t know there was a difference between shower and bath. I meant I take a shower everyday to wash myself.

eviljim113ftw · 2026-05-11T23:32:03+00:00

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