Meraki reviews

-Meraki's startup legacy is still haunting current employees. Tools are out of sync with Cisco's processes and coordination between Meraki and Cisco is not easy. -Compensation has been improving in recent months, but is still behind as compared to other prestige tech companies in the Bay Area -Meraki shares Cisco's benefit plan (kludgy and limited PTO accrual being the worst part of this) -Mission Bay location is somewhat inconvenient for transit (there's a Muni stop nearby, but for the last couple of years, construction of the new Warriors stadium has made it hard to get to the site) -Cisco proper is intruding into Meraki's small-company culture; for better and for worse, it will be more a part of the giant homogeneous Cisco machine in a year, and even more so the year after that.

Salary - Meraki wasn't able to compete with salaries being offered by other tech companies - and they weren't willing to budge. In the 2 years I worked there, Meraki had a lot of trouble keeping employees around because they weren't willing to offer higher OTE's. If you want to keep talent, you have to compete financially. Monotony of the job - working through partners can make you feel like you're doing the same thing, day to day...click, approve, collect PO. Employee Attrition - not good. Lots of people have left and Meraki hasn't done much to incentivize those to stay.