Meraki Developer reviews

If you care about building and designing features the right way (while paying off technical debt), you'll be sadly disappointed. A few engineers were hired to be technical leaders but quickly left when they found out they would actually be doing little leadership and instead be implementing a number of the features themselves. Even the features that do get built have little architecture or design behind them (and instead are rushed out the door to say "we shipped it" and make a sale rather than delivering something that is stable and well-built). We were recently told that the dinner and transportation benefits would be dramatically reduced. A number of engineers voiced valid concerns, especially since some of the benefits were promised to them as part of their offer letters. Instead of listening to them, we were instead invited to take a training course on "How to Manage Change in the Workplace".

The codebase is much older than I thought it would be and it's hard to understand how any given piece fits into the whole picture. There's a bit of every framework created in the last 15 years (jquery, angular, backbone, react, redux). Comments are sparse with some being horribly outdated. Everytime I ask someone about why this is the case, it's been shrugged off as "tech debt/a cost of doing business". There are also a ton of distractions around the office that make it hard to focus sometimes. Plus, when you ask folks for help, they tell you they're busy and ask you to find someone else, except that they end up turning around to shop on Amazon or have a loud off-topic conversation.