Internal Trainings

Learning & Development Benefits

Cisco provides access to a wide range of learning and development resources, including:

• Hundreds of internal courses arranged throughout the year
• A reimbursement program for external courses, conferences, books, and subscriptions to online learning platforms and publications

Course Highlights

• Design Thinking (2019): A two-day course taught by consultants on applying design thinking principles to communicate and derive solutions for complex problems (Cisco Calgary Office, AB)
• Mindfulness (2019): A 5-week program (1 hour per week) taught by consultants on staying mindful and effective at work
• Tufte One-Day Course (2019): A course taught by Edward Tufte on data visualization principles for compelling visuals
• SANS Incident Response (2018): A week-long program on thinking like a hacker by learning and exploiting system vulnerabilities
• Cisco R00tcamp (2017): A week-long hands-on program on penetration testing techniques for building secure software
• Cisco Threat-Hunting (2017): A daylong course on finding root causes of security threats using integrated Cisco tools, including team-developed products
• RailsConf (2015): A conference that facilitated community engagement and adoption of practices like BugSnag for in-house use

Additional resources used include Safari Books Online (O’Reilly Learning), where 3 online trainings and 7 books were completed over the past 3 years.