Headwinds Have Turned This Place Extremely Corporate - Virtual Sales Account Manager Meraki Employee Review

- Cisco Corporate has taken over with force since the beginning of economic pressures & COVID - Perks are being rolled back (New employees are no longer sent to San Francisco for 2 weeks of training, Vegas for the Sales Org Kick-off is gone and probably not coming back, etc) - Rampant favoritism in territory segmentation - Favoritism and favors pull people into management - Lots of virtue signalling (i.e. supporting all major social movements on Twitter only but not actually taking any efforts to increase diversity in management - Management protects management; young managers run the Sales Org and are notorious for passive aggressive people management tactics - Upper management puts TONS of pressure on said younger managers despite being out of touch with individual contributors; the environment is NOT conducive to making these existing managers form meaningful and strong relationships with their teams - Infighting/Office drama that comes along with any major corporation is rampant here. Ask any individual contributor who gets picked on the most and most people in the office will probably say the same 2-3 people. Managers are known to bully individuals on their team that they don't get along with instead of resolving issues like adults (this is why you don't hire children as managers FYI) - Despite great pay in theory there are only a few patches actually able to meet quota during the current crisis; expect maybe 70-75% of your OTE during the current crisis - While everyone is given the opportunity to climb the organization in theory, often times favorites who everyone assumed was next in line end up getting promotions 9 times out of 10. If you're not a favorite or a POC with aspirations of something better, expect some empty promises