Cisco Employees
#Winning: The Best of #WeAreCisco #LoveWhereYouWork
Cisco employees wear many hats (literally and figuratively – ha!) Usually your “job description” is a suggestion, as you’re often asked to help different teams in different ways throughout your career. One of the most fun “hats” each year is to be a judge for the #WeAreCisco #LoveWhereYouWork employ…
Costa Rica – An Office in Paradise
Ready to visit one of the happiest and friendliest Cisco offices on earth? If you are, here are some tips for when you visit or interview in our office in Costa Rica. I’m Lucero, I’m a Partner Advisor here and I’ll be your blog guide today. Let me start with some fun facts about Costa Rica: Our Nati…
Oh, Baby, Baby! Celebrating Life Events with Global Teams
One of my favorite quotes goes something like this: Live life, not by the moments you have to breathe, but by the moments that take your breath away. It’s fitting for my team at Cisco (I work in HR for the Talent Brand Team. If you’ve read this blog or seen the @WeAreCisco social channels, that’s us…
Winning With The Best #WeAreCisco #Maythe4th Post In All The Galaxy
A few months ago, a fellow Cisco employee set the ball rolling on a wild, fun, Star Wars adventure. He asked in an all-company meeting, the Cisco Beat, if we could celebrate Star Wars Day #Maythe4th as a company. I love to bring a bit of goofiness into work, and it’s always exciting when we get to d…
Disrupt or get disrupted – a Cisco hackathon is born.
32 hours non-stop. Pushing boundaries. Thinking creatively and innovating in ways never thought possible. That sums up the recent 4th Annual Enterprise Networking Group (ENG) Hackathon. It sounds like it’s all around solving business challenges to transform Cisco and technology (which it is) but it’…
Great Cisco Teams At Work – And Play!
Do you have a great team? I do! It’s such a terrific group of people, that not only do we work together and innovate together, but we’re a team outside of work as well! I came to Cisco through the Cisco Sales Associate Program (CSAP), which is a one-year program where we train together with other gl…
New Cisco Moms Give Mother’s Day Career Advice
Some new moms set up play dates for their babies, but when you work for Cisco there are more – let’s call them connected creative options. Cisco collaboration can be used for more than business meetings when you want to share special moments with co-workers during baby “collaboration time”. Cisco Co…
May the 4th Be With You, Cisco Style
When employees submitted entries into the #WeAreCisco #LoveWhereYouWork contest back in February, one of the themes that came through was that they loved that they felt like they could be themselves. So the #WeAreCisco #LoveWhereYouWork contest is coming back, but this time with a #Maythe4th twist.…
The Adventures Of Cisco Employees and a Tuk Tuk Through India
Contributions to this post are also made by Jon-Paul Pritchard, Head of Executive Staffing in the Asia Pacific Japan and China (APJC) region. This week, I and my Cisco colleague Jon-Paul Pritchard will be driving a TUK TUK – which is a small three-wheeled rickshaw-type buggy/taxi – with only 7 hors…
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