Wednesday, December 7, 2016
My Job Shadowing Experience
I job shadowed a Senior IT Engineer from Cisco named Mohammed Quadir and at Cisco he did stuff relating to a voice-over up engineer and supporting Cisco's global voice-over up infrastructure. He said that there were 3 tiers of IT support and he was in the 3rd tier which was the highest. Quadir had a team which he worked with for projects and on Tuesdays he had lots of meetings to see how those projects were going. Quadir also had no actual schedule he however had to come when the company needed him. On the contrary though he said that he liked working at Cisco because they were very flexible and this way he could work and also stay with his family like for example before he could come whenever he wanted and could work at home as well as in the office. Quadir had a Electronic and communications engineering degree, had classes for JAVA, and with his first IT job which wasn't at Cisco he learned a lot which prepared him for Cisco. This was his knowledgeable background and this probably let him get a job at Cisco. When I first got to Building number 5 at Cisco at 9am i was really excited, the front desk lady helped me get started before Mohammed came and she got me the guest sticker and wi-fi and also confirmed for me that i was at the right building. The thing was though that he told me to come between 9-10am so since I wanted to look good I came at 9am but he came at 11:40am after i called him and texted him. Nevertheless we got straight into it and he took me to his cubicle and got me a bagel.He started to then talk about his job that I have already said and then in what should have been the climax he started to get into online meetings and I just sat there not knowing what to do because I couldn't hear the people he was talking to. So I sat there for about another hour but it felt like an eternity doing nothing. So a was sitting then for about 3 hours straight and the job already was seeming dull to me. Then he got out of the call and asked me if I wanted to go to lunch and I jumped on the question and obviously said yes.We then made our way down to the cafeteria and when i got there it beat my expectations because I expected it to be like a school cafeteria but it was more like a restaurant and Mohammed kindly paid for my pizza,chips,and drinks. We started to talk about his job and about the AOIT program that got me there. After lunch he said that he was going to have to go to the apex Costco to run some errands and offered to drop me off I agreed after calling my dad to tell him but before we could leave i wanted to ask him some more questions. Once we finally finished we then went to his car and he dropped me off.
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