Meraki Software Engineer reviews

3.9

92% would recommend to a friend

(36 total reviews)
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Lawrence Huang

85% approve of CEO

91% positive business outlook

Software Engineer employees have rated Meraki with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 36 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Meraki is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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36 reviews
1.0
May 27, 2020
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
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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.
4.0
Jan 30, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company cares a lot about creating a safe environment within the workplace.

Cons

Hard to advance career wise. Lots of communication gets lost from upper management down to engineers.

1.0
Nov 16, 2019
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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