The alarming turn of events at one of Silicon Valley's stalwart, iconic companies leaves many older Silicon Valley techies with more evidence in support of a legitimate gripe: They're losing their jobs to younger people. Earlier this summer, Rowan Trollope, senior vice president and general manager of the collaboration technology group at Cisco Systems, told a crowd at a Commonwealth Club event in San Francisco that Cisco will hire 2,000 Millennials this year.