This post comes from Chandni Panchal, a systems engineer in DevX UK&I.Having joined Cisco through the graduate Sales Associate Program, Chandni now focuses on cybersecurity and programmability. She recently spoke at a Women Rock-IT event, to hear more from Chandni, click here to view the video on demand. 

I was always keen on STEM subjects at school. I loved maths. It was my strongest subject and I was the kind of student who thought you can achieve anything in the world if you put the work in. School involved a very different style of learning. For example, maths lessons would consist of being shown a problem and being given exact steps to follow in order to get the answer. Regardless of what numbers came up in that problem, you follow the same step-by-step plan and you