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

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
Oct 18, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The office is in a good location with free lunch, barista available few days.

Cons

You can't make any progress at Meraki, the most inept management ever. Every IC spends all their time in doing presentations to management to get approval, it strokes the ego of management to do endless reviews. The end result is that nothing gets shipped, and in the end there are endless decks and unhappy customers. The culture in design team is highly toxic, if you speak up against bad practices you will get fired, and there are too many. There is no value attached to good work at Meraki. It has taken company two years to release a sub-par AI Assistant which does a poor job of answering simple questions.

3.0
Jan 13, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Competitive pay and benefits - Employees were generally treated well, aside from mass layoffs - (YMMV) product and related teams worked on interesting problems with interesting customers

Cons

- Increased integration with Cisco. Reasonable from a business perspective, but has been managed poorly. Meraki is losing the startup feel in favor of big Cisco, which is it's own mess in terms of culture and direction. - High-performers in the low-mid level ranks were/are leaving quickly as the startup culture fades and revenue growth slows - Career progression was unclear and unstructured due to constant layoffs, shuffling within Cisco, and a mixed bag of management

1.0
Oct 16, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Now past tense, but simplicity philosophy built a great product. Keeping autonomy inside Cisco allowed innovation at speed.

Cons

Internal to Cisco. Meraki and Enterprise networking teams have merged. Meraki structure no longer exists in the way that made it great. Chaos has ensued during the merger process, which has been in planning for over 8 months. Implementation, which started 3 months ago, is still incomplete. Middle managers and employees are being squeezed, creating a toxic workplace. Employees forced into the list below. Fearful of saying anything, against the redundancies. • Accept targets that are over 4 months late and repay commissions retroactively. • Cover both product lines, despite inadequate training on the new offerings. • Meet significantly increased targets, sometimes 6x or more. • Take on multiple roles due to ongoing layoffs over the past year. Additionally, there has been a Meraki brain drain with key leaders leaving, and no pay increase to reflect these additional responsibilities. It would not be a surprise if Cisco dissolves the Meraki brand name in the not too distant future.

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