Encouraged to Thrive - Software Training Specialist MeridianLink Employee Review

5.0
Jun 12, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Leadership that is honest and genuinely cares about employees (true story: the CEO once put my bike in the back of his truck and drove me home because of bad weather.) Managers and team leads encourage employees to grow, learn, and try new things, even if there's no guarantee of success. Lots of opportunity to make a difference and add your mark to the company if you put yourself out there. If a project or experiment doesn't pan out, employees are encouraged to learn from the experience, rather than assigning blame or punishment. I've always felt very secure in my job as long as I'm honestly doing my best to add value to the company.

Cons

When I first started with the company (over 5 years ago) there was very little communication between different teams and departments, which caused some duplicated efforts and misunderstandings/confusion at the time. Fortunately, they've gotten much better at communication since then, but from time to time things will still sometimes slip through the cracks. For employees who work remotely, or from a satellite office, the health insurance is quite a bit more expensive. When I moved away from HQ, that was tough at first. Also, there's this one specific button in the system that continues to taunt me with its very existence, despite my many attempts to get rid of it. (Though to be fair, that's more of a personal vendetta than a criticism of the whole company.)

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MeridianLink Response
8y
We're happy to hear our Oregon office is just as happy as HQ. :) Thanks for all your years of service so far, and for sharing these nice comments. I can't help you with the dang button, but I did pass along your comments about health insurance to our HR Director.

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