Meraki reviews

Struggling to hire and retain talent, especially with diversity. There have been lots of "conversations" and "metrics" around diversity, but not much has actually been done to address it. Promotion or departure is often centered around "who is most social with others" or "politically the savviest", not necessarily who is most qualified for the position. Lots of projects worked on or rejected on because of political reasons, rather than actually what's best for our company overall and our customers. Lots of senior engineers departing recently as a result. New grad salary/stock doesn't keep pace with other tech companies in the area.

* Lowest base pays for this role you will find anywhere in the Bay Area. * You will run out of things to learn in 6 months. Most peers have half-baked knowledge. You can tell this from the standard of the interview and the interviewer. * You will almost never get a reasonable hike. Management prefers to hire folks with 0 years of experience as per "the current market rate" than give existing employees the hike the deserve. The only way to make extra bucks is working extra hours, weekends, holiday shifts which effectively means you will have little or no social life. * You will take unending calls and email cases. The management will promise this will change but it's a known fact that it never will. * You have to be a 'yes man' to get the right moves. * Most managers have no technical knowledge and will assess you purely based on numbers. Calls taken, cases closed, etc. You can be an expert on BGP, IPSec, etc. but they don't care about that. * Unlike what some other reviewers think, the management is very much aware of the ground reality. They just don't care.