Silicon Valley

Grief, they say, doesn’t have an expiration date. It perhaps fades with time, but never leaves you. Born and raised in India, I moved to the United States nine years ago for a new beginning in life. Being an only child, it was difficult to say goodbye to my parents and I missed them terribly – but…

I grew up at Cisco. Not many of us can call ourselves “Cisco Babies” – but I think I qualify. My mom, Nicole James, has worked for the company since 1998. I was just six years old when she started working here and I have fond memories of spending my summers hanging out in her cubicle and begging her…

How many people can say that in a moment where the unthinkable has happened in their life their company CEO has taken the time to send a personal note offering his support? We hear it a lot at Cisco that we “have each other’s backs” or that “we’re a family” – but you don’t know how true those words…

Be you, with us – that’s a saying you often hear around Cisco, and we believe it. But imagine the surprise of some of our employees when we asked, “Have you ever wanted to be an extra in a movie?” Those magic words enticed 116 employee volunteers to three different locations around Cisco Headquarter…

If loving where you work is wrong – we don’t want to be right! 😉 We’re honored to have been named on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to work for at #6 (that’s a 42-point jump, in case you were wondering.) I never planned on dating a co-worker. Not only did the ide…

I learned a lot from my friend and Cisco’s former CEO, John Chambers, and he would always tell me: “You learn the most about people when they are under pressure.” It’s a fascinating personal and professional development question:  how will you react to pressure, pressure so intense it makes your hea…

(Continued from Part 1) Dave Ward, Cisco, left; Ben Havey, Walt Disney Studios, right, during “the reveal” of Disney’s StudioLAB Leslie Ellis: Such as what it takes to make a blockbuster film. As in, hundreds of people, and it takes months. Whereas with new and emerging VR tools,…

Hi, it’s Rog. On June 26, at Cisco’s Building No. 9, in San Jose, we and the Advanced Imaging Society, hosted our first-ever “XR on the Bay: Where Silicon Valley Meets Hollywood” event. Jim Chabin, President of the AIS, kicked things off with a rather brilliant observation, which summed up the entir…

I was born and raised in a beautiful city in Northeast China called Dalian. It’s a small town – with about 7 million people. One of the reasons I love my hometown is because this where my career started. I was selected as the second intern in 2008 to work at the first wafer fab in Dalian. I soon joi…