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      Meraki

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      Meraki reviews

      3.8

      68% would recommend to a friend

      (682 total reviews)
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      Lawrence Huang

      73% approve of CEO

      59% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Senior management

      Meraki has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 682 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Meraki employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      682 reviews
      1.0
      May 27, 2020

      Terrible systems and inefficient teams

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Find the right team and you can get by doing very little real work.

      Cons

      Some teams don't care about things that happen outside their team (and will happily throw you under the bus when they asked you to do something yet gave you unreasonable deadlines to actually do it). Ironically, "cross team collaboration" was listed internally as the worst performing area within Engineering. Plenty of internal "marketing" about how good Cisco is doing for its employees (with superfluous "AMAs") yet they often don't listen to complaints submitted (or even read Glassdoor).

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      Meraki Response
      5y
      Thank you for sharing your feedback. Our goal is for every Merakian to have a positive work experience, and we were sorry to hear you are having a difficult time. As Meraki continues to grow, we are constantly looking for ways to improve ourselves and our employee experience. We have instituted a number of ways to encourage honest feedback, learn from our mistakes, and figure out what we can do differently. Glassdoor is a vital listening channel for us, but we also encourage you to bring your concerns to your manager or company leadership if you feel comfortable. We have raised your feedback to our team leadership and will continue to work on making Meraki an inclusive and supportive environment.
      5.0
      Apr 3, 2020

      Working at Meraki during the Covid-19 pandemic

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Meraki has shown up in the best way during this emergency time. The company hasn't done a lot of bragging about the ways that they have supported people, so I'm going to do the bragging for them. First with their employees. We received the message to mandatory work from home a full week before SF county announced shelter. Leadership has been very supportive and we've been told many times to prioritize family and well-being. Overall, managers seem to be flexible with the staff, knowing that people have kids and other responsibilities. My manager specifically has been overly flexible knowing that I have a young kid at home and can't work my normal 8 hours. With our vendors and suppliers and the community, Meraki is making sure they are still being paid even though offices are closed. The goal is to make sure all the companies that support us are still around when we recover. We are donating meals to nonprofits and hospitals. Networking equipment was also sent to hospitals. With our customers, special arrangements are being made on licenses and renewals too. Lastly, our leaders have been pretty transparent. We had an AMA a few days ago and it seemed like no topic was off limits.

      Cons

      This is more of a con on Covid-19 but things are changing so fast that it's hard to keep up. There are probably 4 emails a week from Cisco, Meraki, HR, or others about a change to some process because of what's happening. I know people are working hard on comms.

      1.0
      Nov 16, 2019

      Change is not good, listen to your employees

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      If you are able to build and ship features quickly that impress product management (even if they have critical bugs present), you'll do quite well.

      Cons

      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".

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