Meraki reviews

To be honest, I did not have high expectations when I applied; mostly because of a poor experience interning with Cisco some years ago. However, after going through the interview process of coming to the office and meeting my future team, I was convinced to join even though I had other offers from places I had ranked higher at the beginning of my job search (including a fast growing profitable biotech startup that was offering 10% profit share). I was searching for culture and work life as the utmost important items for my job search this time around, and believe I chose correctly. Here are some reasons why: - No workaholic culture here; I'm in the office working 8 hours a day and that's normal. There are those that work more, but that's self-driven. Many in leadership are now old enough to have kids, and the expectation from above is this isn't a place where your life is expected to be devoted to work. - That being said people are not apathetic or lazy. In fact the people I work with hold themselves to a very high standard, even though we already are many levels of quality above what competitors in the same space try to imitate. - The people I work with day to day are very smart; previously working for places such as Apple, Facebook, Nest, etc. - This might seem trivial, but the interior decorating at the office is the best I've ever worked at, and I would not have previously held that in high regard as something to care about but it makes coming into work feel just a little nicer every day. - Culture-wise, openness and transparency are valued not just in a mission statement but in actual practice. - It's not perfect, but management genuinely cares about making Meraki a welcoming place to work for ALL. Like almost all tech companies, the demographics are skewed in the engineering department, but efforts are underway to be more diverse. - Opportunity to work on everything ranging from firmware to React - Business performance is excellent, growing extremely quickly - Pay matches other top companies in the area

Used to be a fabulous company when the founders were around. They believed in the vision, and maintained the hungry startup culture. People were more than happy to prop up and support others. The company was scrappy, and good people were recognized for doing a good job. Fast forward to 2016/2017. Super inexperienced managers were promoted for good individual contributions. They weren't promoted because they're good at developing others. Problem is, they don't have the "for the team" mentality, but are way more interested in self promoting (like in any situation, there are some exceptions). These managers are afraid of letting their directs shine, so their directs work like dogs and don't see any recognition for the effort. Unfortunately, this mentality seems to start at the top.