Cisco Employees

I was twenty-two years old when I joined Cisco Capital, a recent college graduate, ready and willing to bring everything I could to the table in my first real world position. The role was in North Carolina – adding a new location to the new experience. So I packed up and moved 500 miles south. I had…

The excitement around the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (#GHC16) conference is growing and growing! That’s because only a few days from now, some really awesome women in tech will descend upon Houston, TX and begin three days of networking, learning, interviewing and having fun! Wit…

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…

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…

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…

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…