SUPPORT BURN! - Network Support Engineer Meraki Employee Review

1.0
Mar 12, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

1) ZERO-There are no pros

Cons

1) Call Center - 8 hours of work is on the Phone i.e. literally all the time you will be on the phone+ along with Juggling Supporting Email Cases+ Creating Bug reports+Reproducing issues+ Meeting SLA's-Your time is tracked by Managers from all teams in minutes via Call system, New Voice Media. 2) You work in shifts, let's say you are working 8-5 shift, YOU have to be signed in at 8 sharp and be ready to take calls, they track your time like hawks, you get 15 mins 2 breaks in a day! you are timed the whole day, you can't even breathe through your day! In any given day you take 15-20 calls approx. + 7-10 emails cases. You are working at 200% brain power+high intensity. They call it SUPPORT BURN and it is real! 3) You are not allowed to take more than two breaks in a day, mind you that should include your bathroom breaks. 4) You are not allowed to be a part of any in-office events including Meraki Town-halls, Development training, +Gym BootCamps+Yoga classes+None. As a support engineer, you are treated like cattle. 5) They pay you very low compensation and no concept of salary hike after the performance review as of today. That is still work in progress in that front from 2012. 6) You will be reporting to unqualified support managers & senior managers, most of them don't even have college degrees and no leadership experience. 7) Most of the OPT's, H1B's please don't get trapped because you have no way out- you are stuck for immigration stuff and will gain no new skills to help you switch jobs you will only have BURN SUPPORT BURN! 8) This job will stress you out, leave you exhausted at the end of the day, on the everyday basis-Its simply not worth it! 9) I have personally have asked my colleagues "what do you do after work hours?"- The get a universal response of- We are Exhausted, stressed and we just want to crash and nothing else! 10) Please find a better place and don't regret later. 11) No flexible work from home policy- Need prior approvals and preset criteria have to be met. No work from home on sick days! and others.

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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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