Life At Cisco

It is a GREAT time in history to be a student and a Cisco employee, and as a forty-something college senior and Cisco Technical Solutions Engineer on our Cloud and Hosted Solutions team for Worldwide Sales – I should know! Cisco has given me the opportunity to attain a higher level of education and…

This post was authored by Cisco Sales Intern Samy Doloris. As my studies in Computer Science and Engineering ended, there was one thing left to achieve – my master thesis. Most students at my university look up thesis topics with their professors. But I chose an alternative direction and found mysel…

This post was authored by Cisco Sales Intern Alyssa Cuffie. When I was in Middle School, I attended theater camp every summer. I just knew that I wanted to be an actress and was blessed that my parents had the ability to help me with that dream. And even though I didn’t always learn all my lines, I…

How does one go from university to shadowing a Cisco SVP in Brazil?  I think “Veritas et Utilitas,” (meaning truth and service) and my time at Howard University, a Historically Black College and University in Washington, DC, had a lot to do with it.  “Veritas et Utilitas” is Howard University’s fou…

After working in technology for 15 years, I had what many may call a mid-life crisis. Although, not in the traditional sense of the word. Rather, I started to question my purpose and the direction of my life – and began to wonder if I should leave my career in technology to become a part of somethin…

Four months after I received my master’s degree in piano performance from the University of Notre Dame, after attending on a full, talent-based scholarship – my life changed forever.  It was Thanksgiving, and on the final baste of the turkey dinner I was cooking for myself and my new husband – “it”…

A lot of companies talk about how they’re changing the world. But how is that taking place, and how often are the people within that company the ones participating in meaningful projects that actually create change? There are a lot of reasons I love working at Cisco, but the biggest – for me – is th…

This post was written by Cisco Intern Charlie Helms Jr. What I love most about working at Cisco is the feeling that I truly matter. Being an African-American student in computer science has many challenges, and one of them is seeing longevity in your field when you do not see many people that look…

Having been in tech for decades, with quite a few interesting and successful projects completed throughout my career, nothing has given me more satisfaction than the creation of a Natural Language Processing (NLP) Chatbot during a mentorship opportunity with high school students from local Italian s…