Cisco Employees

Who’s excited to see the winners of the second annual #WeAreCisco #LoveWhereYouWork employee photo contest? (Me! ✋ Me! ✋ Me! ✋ ) There were 1300 entries. We know. We counted. (Many times.) There were 1100 entries from Twitter and Instagram, and several hundred entered in t…

The calendar is filled with “fun” holidays, Cookie Day, Chocolate Cake Day (mmm, I’m hungry now,) Talk Like a Pirate Day and more. However, Friday, March 3rd might be the bestest holiday EVAH! Why? Because it’s Employee Appreciation Day! This isn’t just a Cisco holiday, it’s an “everywhere” holiday.…

When I started out at Cisco five years ago as an Intern, I could never have imagined myself leading the redesign of the new Cisco Careers website. My teammates knew it would be a big job, and offered to help me with sanity checks (they did), but it turns out that it was a project that I ended up rea…

Recently, I posted a Tweet with a photo of my colleague Melissa Holder and I enjoying a screening together of the blockbuster movie, Hidden Figures. After discussing this film more with other colleagues, I decided to write this blog post – not just because this was an excellent movie (nominated for…

Happy Valentine’s Day! Love is in the air. Especially when you #LoveWhereYouWork! The second annual #WeAreCisco #LoveWhereYouWork contest is in full swing, and employees are CRUSHING on last year’s number of entries. In 2016 over 1000 photos were submitted in the month of February, and this year in…

Women have come a long way in technology, but sometimes, it feels like there’s still a long way to go. We got a little closer to the end goal here in Norway recently, when my friend and colleague Kari Asheim became the second female CCIE in the country. (The Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert is a…

“Do you like where you work?” “No, I LOVE where I work!” This is the conversation you might encounter when you ask a Cisco employee about their job. Why do they love it so much? Employees won’t just tell you, they’ll show you. If you follow the #WeAreCisco hashtag on Twitter or Instagram, you’ll see…

This is the first in a series of Cisco site guides to help employees who visit different offices or for those interviewing.  Welcome to Cisco in in Raleigh / RTP (that’s Research Triangle Park for you non-North Carolinians). Should you ever have the opportunity to visit or interview at our location,…

I’m a journalist; a storyteller. My job as a social media manager for Cisco requires all the same skills I honed as a news producer at television news stations all across the country. When I made the leap into the corporate tech world, I wondered how big of a learning curve I’d face. It…