Life At Cisco

We all have birthdays – but not all birthdays are celebrated the Cisco way. One of the perks of being a Cisco employee is that the company recognizes that your birthday is an important day for you. So to help you celebrate, Cisco employees get to take a day off for their birthday to have a party, sp…

This post was written by Cisco Intern, Mark Henderson, who interned for us over the summer in Toronto, Canada. He’s back at school now, but his post inspired us. Have a great year Mark!   *** “If you’re not nervous, you’re not growing.” This quote is one that I have held as a personal mantra,…

Written in conjunction with my fellow Human Resources Leadership Program colleague, Josh Skelton.  Have you ever attended a meeting with a robot? Well, I recently attended a meeting as a robot. That’s the amazing thing about working at Cisco – the opportunity to use our technology to connect with co…

There are a lot of reasons to work at Cisco, but one of the best reasons I’ve found is because the best people work here. After being at Cisco for a year, I really felt I was part of the Cisco Capital team, achieving personal and professional goals, but still new to North Carolina and finding my bea…

Executives. They are the celebrities of the business world. Some of them have specific, personal self-brands that they have worked on. They are known to be smart. Some charismatic. Some serious and some perhaps scary. Some rarely show up publicly and prefer to be background players. I am lucky enoug…

Penang, Malaysia. A beautiful city and an exciting opportunity for the whole Human Resources team in the Asia Pacific, Japan and China regions to come together to learn from each other, grow together and volunteer together. And I had to miss it. While the rest of my team was going to be bonding and…

Have you seen Supermarket Sweep on TV?  If so, you know it’s a hectic mad-dash of a competition. Cisco’s Employee Financial Services IT Group, however, took speed-shopping to a whole new level, all while giving back to our local community! My team is spread across the globe from North Carolina to Ca…

Time off to give back. We talk about it on this blog a lot, because employees love the idea of giving back. But a lot of the stories are about going big. Traveling to Honduras, volunteering for the big cats. But the great thing about this time off to give back, is that it doesn’t HAVE to be about go…

This post was written by Cisco Intern, Mara Fowler who has since gone back to school (we miss you, Mara!) but we still loved her journey and wanted to share with our awesome Cisconian community! *** Why did you choose Cisco? One simple question, posed by our fearless leaders during intern orientatio…