About the job offers: at Cisco they have (or had) only 6 months to fill a "req", i.e. the permission to hire someone. If not filled by then the req got taken away.
So what you do is, you find someone, then open the req, then wait a while and hire the person you already selected.
So what you do is, you find someone, then open the req, then wait a while and hire the person you already selected.
Internal hiring websites are for show only.