I work for a company who hires a lot of Cisco PMs and we just hired another one, but from Meraki this time. I worked for Cisco for 15 years and got laid off in 2015, but the PM quality recently is rancid ant an 100% level and we keep hiring more of them. Every time I see we hired a Cisco PM I get depressed. Does Meraki make it any better?
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I interviewed at Meraki years ago, after going through a Cisco RIF. I wasn't hired because I was "too old" (of course they didn't say that, but it was blatantly obvious during the interviews). The guy they hired instead of me had 10% of my experience and was almost half my age. Meraki's hiring process was a joke, and this just confirms it.
Meraki itself is a marketing/ODM purchasing entity, their technical ability especially in HW is about a 3/10. Accordingly, their PMs have only had experience with the Meraki management clown car and minimal if any professional enterprise PM experience. Recent reorgs might help get them better trained, but the jury is still out on that.
Cisco trained PMs are head and shoulders above Meraki, but many haven't kept up and are stuck in the old Cisco methodology ruts.
Well, should've said that Cisco made Meraki worse then Meraki makes it worse.
Meraki makes it worse.