Meati Reviews

2.3

16% would recommend to a friend

(48 total reviews)

Yasir Abdul

Not enough data to show CEO approval

21% positive business outlook

Meati has an employee rating of 2.3 out of 5 stars, based on 48 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Meati employee rating is 34% below average for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
14 Sept 2023

Bye Bye, Boulder Facility.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Schadenfreude watching bad leadership destroy itself with terrible decision making. - Very expensive headquarters that nearly nobody uses. The gym was always empty, though! - The company has twice the integrity of a wet napkin.

Cons

- The way Meati is posturing and cutting staff leads many current employees to believe that the company is basically done. - Burnout, abysmal employee retention, and a list of company values that reads like a Heaven's Gate manifesto. - More doublespeak than an Orwell novel. - Second round of layoffs after the seemingly inept president/ COO and his CEO lackey, Scott Tassani and Tyler Huggins, "pinky promised" no more layoffs until 2025. I guess that's one way to avoid the WARN act. (Closure of the Boulder facility was preceded by two rounds of layoffs a few months apart) - Employee support concentrates to the top. - Inflated salaries for the higher ups in this 'Boys Club'. - Major shift of focus to quantity of product over quality only makes sense if a company is floundering to repay investors and keep afloat.

1.0
23 Mar 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Not many pros other than your direct coworkers tend to be amazing people. Most people (not all but most) above shift supervisors are greedy and lack any conscience towards the livelihood or safety for the employees. They will claim down-time and replacement equipment costs too much while paying themselves multi-hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with additional 20% annual bonuses. Their bank accounts are more important than the operator's lives. What was once an amazing small company has become a corporate monster.

Cons

Workers at meati are struggling to keep up mentally and financially while being gaslit that they have not proved their value by jumping through hoops on the forever-changing skills matrix. Even if you fulfill the skills matrix the production supervisor will go against the shift supervisors recommendations while coming up with any reason to deny a raise. Claiming it's because of a lack of "soft skills" rendering your hard work and effort worthless. People have worked here for almost a year with no raise in sight. You only move up if you're willing to go against your moral values and step on those below you. If you like being mentally abused and underpaid, then this place just might be for you.

1.0
5 Oct 2023

Management Failure

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Good coworkers and good shift schedules (potential for lots of time off) if you're hourly - Nothing if you are salary

Cons

We just had our second round of layoffs since June. This time we lost 10 % of our people on paper and the personnel at Pilot got the choice of working at Mega Ranch or not having a job. Nice. And this after the President said we wouldn't have layoffs again this year. The important thing to remember is they received funding the same time as both of these layoffs. Guess it didn't last long since here we are again. One senior member of operations got fired, but very few other senior personnel were fired. Which is interesting since they set the strategy for the company and are responsible for our financial performance. If we're trying to save money, fire Senior Management. Don't fire R&D personnel at Pilot. Ironically, they are actually your most cost efficient employees because you've always paid under market rates for those positions. Fire some people making $150K and up. How many Directors/VPs do we have at the company? How many do we actually need? Sprouts and Whole Foods are your only real customers by volume. Note for everyone reading reviews, you're not seeing reviews by people getting laid off. At this point, we're around 50 people. That should tell you what type of agreements are being signed by personnel to get their severance payouts. And the reviews are still this bad. Don't come work here.

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