Culture of fear, toxicity abounds - Product Designer Meraki Employee Review

1.0
Oct 18, 2025
Recommend
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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.

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5.0
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Cons

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4.0
Dec 11, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

If you are early in career or transitioning, the NSE role is great way to get your feet wet with networking. You have opportunities to learn more in other IT domains as well but not as intensely. When you are off, you are off. No being on call. There are tons of resources and opportunity for you to train and learn. The benefits are some of the best. If you work near a Meraki office, take the opportunity to go, it is worth it. The San Franciso office is the best. There is plenty of documentation public and internal facing. There is a process for handling cases that have no documentation which is very nice. You are not alone on this job ever.

Cons

Being an NSE day to day can become tedious. Most customers are fine, but you will eventually run into one that is difficult to work with. Everything is based on your stats like talk time and customer satisfaction which can be problematic at times. I left because there were no opportunities to move on to a different role. Cisco proper is pulling in the reigns tightly on Meraki, so the culture is changing not for the better. Being in the call queue all day can be tedious especially when it gets backed up and you do not get your scheduled down time. In the US you will have to work weekends occasionally unless you get someone to cover which is becoming harder and harder due to change in overtime policies.

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