Cisco Employees

November 23, 2015

LIFE AT CISCO

Employees Give Cisco Cats a “Paw Up” In Life

Everyone knows that cats rule the Internet. Since Cisco’s focus is the Internet of Everything, it would make sense that when they are abandoned or lose their homes, cats would want to gravitate towards the Cisco San Jose campus (even enter the lobbies!). Employees that work in San Jose, however, kne…

November 19, 2015

LIFE AT CISCO

Movember Goes Global at Cisco

Whether it’s in the U.S., Poland, the UK or other locations, mustaches are taking over Cisco offices this month! Pencil-thin mustaches, handle-bar mustaches, fake mustaches (for the women!) – they’re everywhere! Cisco employees love to have an impact over their community, whether it’s their neighbor…

November 16, 2015

LIFE AT CISCO

Delivering Awesome, Inspired by Graffiti Art

  “Delivering Awesome” might mean different things to different people. For the team delivering a workspace reboot, it meant finding a fun way to make the employee residents in the updated Building 18 in San Jose, CA feel at home in their new work environment. For the engineers who work in the…

November 5, 2015

LIFE AT CISCO

Cisco Employees Blab About the Cisco Life

Cisco employees know all about working at Cisco, the fun we have while we work and the cool things we do. But sometimes they just want to tell other people about it. So the team that brings you @WeAreCisco on Twitter and Instagram and @CiscoUniversity on Twitter (among other social media channels) j…

November 4, 2015

LIFE AT CISCO

Galway Shoots a “GOAL!”

At its heart, Irish culture has a very strong love of sport. While the Irish are very passionate about it, sometimes our success is disproportionate to the size of our love and our population. But that doesn’t stop us! Because the sporting community has a strong sense of volunteerism, it’s the found…

November 2, 2015

LIFE AT CISCO

13 Tips to Inspire Your Inner Leader

Lots of people think of the number 13 as unlucky, but sometimes, it can be a LUCKY number. It was for the 13 women at Cisco Japan who were chosen to participate in a program called Project Quantum – a year-long program that would help them take quantum (rapid) leaps and accelerate their leadership d…

October 26, 2015

LIFE AT CISCO

Employees Bring Cisco Tech to Late Night on Jimmy Kimmel Live

It’s Oscar’s night. Your technology is getting ready to debut in less than three minutes on Jimmy Kimmel Live (emphasis on the “live” part). You’re not sure if the celebrity interview you’ve planned at the Governor’s Ball is going to happen. Then, the show launches, Cisco’s Wall of America is a hit,…

October 8, 2015

LIFE AT CISCO

Cisco Mom and Son Bring IoE and Entrepreneurship to Kids Everywhere

Sometimes, the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. That’s the case with 8-year-old Omkar Govil-Nair, whose mom, Shubha Govil, is a senior manager of products for the Cisco Collaboration Technology Group. Technology and tinkering with invention is something that the two of them share. “Omkar wa…

October 1, 2015

LIFE AT CISCO

8 Career Tips From Cisco’s Awesome Women In Technology

Cisco employees, who also happen to be women technologists, are gearing up to attend/speak/participate in the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in October. During the conference, upcoming women technologists will be receiving lots of career advice. Some members of the Cisco WISE employe…