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February 12, 2020

LIFE AT CISCO

Technology + Giving Back: When Worlds Collide

After working in technology for 15 years, I had what many may call a mid-life crisis. Although, not in the traditional sense of the word. Rather, I started to question my purpose and the direction of my life – and began to wonder if I should leave my career in technology to become a part of somethin…

January 28, 2020

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Learning to ‘Be You, With Us’ at Cisco

This post was written by Cisco marketing intern Sang Le. On my first day at Cisco, I could tell I was different. As the first and only female Marketing Intern for Cisco Cloud Security – I stuck out like a sore thumb alongside the 100+ software engineers I worked with in Vancouver, Canada. I thought…

October 8, 2019

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Once an Intern, Always an Intern

This post was authored by Engineering Intern Dhwan Wanjara. As my summer internship at Cisco Allentown came to an end I was filled with gratitude for the incredible opportunity I received to be a Cisco intern.  My time was full of action, a bit of learning, a bit of growth, hard work and a lot of fu…

September 23, 2019

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Joining Cisco’s Ensoft Team

Do you ever wonder how stuff on the Internet, like the web page you’re reading right now, reaches your phone or computer?  Very likely it’s because of code written by Cisco’s Ensoft team in the United Kingdom. The team develops software technology that powers some of the biggest routers in the guts…

July 22, 2019

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Cisco Intern to Full-Time: What I Wish I Knew Then

When starting any new job (but especially a new internship) there are non-stop questions flying through your mind. What’s it like to be a Cisco Intern? What should I look forward to or prepare for? What’s the best part of interning at Cisco? It would be awesome to get a little advice bef…

June 6, 2019

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Busting the hard skills myth: How soft skills shaped my career at Cisco

Often, the top questions we receive on @WeAreCisco Instagram Live takeovers are around obtaining a job at Cisco, how to apply, and what technical certifications and schooling is required. The truth is that it varies from position to position, and while these skills are all very important – I have a…

May 7, 2019

LIFE AT CISCO

Finding My Way to Cisco as a Software Engineer

“What do you want to do when you grow up?” It’s a question we get asked frequently as children, and more and more as we near graduation from high school and college – when life starts closing in on the real world. My answer may not have been too romantic, “Pay my bills.” But that was my reality – an…

February 18, 2019

LIFE AT CISCO

How Cisco’s Talent Brand Brought Life to our New Employee Videos

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…