Its has been long since I have blogged.So I got this idea of writing something about my stay in Cisco,Bangalore.
It has been almost 15 months in Bangalore. Cisco Systems, being my first step in the Corporate World, (though I had done full six months internship in Freescale Semiconductor,Noida)is completely different from what I have heard or seen before. I was mesmerized when I saw "Cisco Cessna Campus". Its was a huge campus with two blocks and the third one in making. You got to swipe your card everytime to go to the next room. The campus had a huge cafeteria serving foods ranging from North Indian, South Indian, Chinese, Tandoori , Juice-center and finally a Live-Kitchen where you could order from variety of yummy stuffs. Then I saw the club house with a Gym, pool tables, carrom boards, Fooseball tables, a basket ball court and an open ground where I saw people playing cricket. The initial one month in Cisco was fun. Parties,yummy foods,trips to Fun places filled with lot of interesting activities and of course day-long Induction presos for New College hires were common.
After the completion of Induction programmes, we moved to our Business Units (commonly called as BU's ,basically departments). I was moved in ARTG ( Access Routing Technology Group) as I had opted for VOIP (Voice/Video over IP). Within a week, I was moved from one team (SIP-TDM gateway) to another (Cisco Unified Border Element or in simple terms IP-IP gateway). The job was very interesting,say sixty percent of my time consisted of Lab testing and fifteen percent in preparing test plans and presenting them to India/US team and the fifteen percent in automating my testcases using Tcl.
Cisco Systems is full of oppurtunities/challenges. You get to know new technologies. Before the world can even think of , you are working on developing such technologies. The work might become sometimes so interesting that one might end up in becoming a "Workaholic" even before one realizes the transformation. And 'I' am one such person :) . Cisco has rightly kept its vision "To change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns."
It has been almost 15 months in Bangalore. Cisco Systems, being my first step in the Corporate World, (though I had done full six months internship in Freescale Semiconductor,Noida)is completely different from what I have heard or seen before. I was mesmerized when I saw "Cisco Cessna Campus". Its was a huge campus with two blocks and the third one in making. You got to swipe your card everytime to go to the next room. The campus had a huge cafeteria serving foods ranging from North Indian, South Indian, Chinese, Tandoori , Juice-center and finally a Live-Kitchen where you could order from variety of yummy stuffs. Then I saw the club house with a Gym, pool tables, carrom boards, Fooseball tables, a basket ball court and an open ground where I saw people playing cricket. The initial one month in Cisco was fun. Parties,yummy foods,trips to Fun places filled with lot of interesting activities and of course day-long Induction presos for New College hires were common.
After the completion of Induction programmes, we moved to our Business Units (commonly called as BU's ,basically departments). I was moved in ARTG ( Access Routing Technology Group) as I had opted for VOIP (Voice/Video over IP). Within a week, I was moved from one team (SIP-TDM gateway) to another (Cisco Unified Border Element or in simple terms IP-IP gateway). The job was very interesting,say sixty percent of my time consisted of Lab testing and fifteen percent in preparing test plans and presenting them to India/US team and the fifteen percent in automating my testcases using Tcl.
Cisco Systems is full of oppurtunities/challenges. You get to know new technologies. Before the world can even think of , you are working on developing such technologies. The work might become sometimes so interesting that one might end up in becoming a "Workaholic" even before one realizes the transformation. And 'I' am one such person :) . Cisco has rightly kept its vision "To change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns."
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