Life At Cisco

Do you remember what first inspired you to follow the road into the tech industry? A mentor or person that pushed you to take the first step? My road to tech is a twisty, curvy one. I’ve had many firsts along the way – a secretary becoming a network technician, a network technician becoming a webmas…

It’s a numbers game for good! Every Cisco office. Every country. Every year. That’s the multiplier for how Cisco’s employees invest their working hours to give back to the local communities. Plus, it’s all about the local needs, too! In Ljubljana, where the Slovenian office is located, we used one o…

What happens when the toughest bicycle race in the world meets Cisco and Internet of Things (IoT) technology? I needed to know for myself, and so a couple of years ago I suggested that the two worlds meet. I got to explain my idea to the CEO of Cisco UKI in August 2014. Twenty months later, and the…

As a freshman in college, I was young and clueless. I was busy partying, and staying up late. I always got A’s in high school, and severely underestimated the work-load of Boston University Engineering. I found myself without a passion. Then sophomore year hit me like a ton of bricks. And, to make m…

You may think I’m a crazy cat lady, who is going to go off on a pet-tangent, but I invite you to stay here with me for a moment. I’ll “purr-suade” you with my story. I’m actually more of a crazy-about-Cisco employee. It’s because of Cisco and it’s flexible workplace technology that allowed my cat, S…

Cisconians like to give back. It’s part of what makes working here so awesome. We just want to ROAR about how Cisco enables us to change the world with our new Time2Give benefit. Cisco gives us the encouragement and means to change our communities with time off in addition to our regular paid time o…

I’m a sailor. As a matter of fact, my family and I sailed around the world a few years ago. We sailed 16,000 nautical miles from San Francisco to Europe, including through the Panama Canal and across the Atlantic Ocean.  I had a lot of time to think about people in crisis, how to respond and the peo…

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon Giving back to the community is an important part of Cisco culture, and Cisco encourages volunteerism. They make it pretty easy, too, by planning volunteer opportunities–such as the company-wide event, Day2Give–and…

If you grew up loving High School Musical like me, then get ready to have some of it’s most iconic (and catchy) songs stuck in your head all day. For those who have not seen this movie-musical masterpiece, let me provide some context for you. High School Musical is a teen movie in the form of a musi…