Good place to work if you fit the culture - Desktop Support Technician Menlo Employee Review

2.0
26 Jan 2023
Recommend
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Pros

There are some really great people at the company. There's a Wellness room when you need to get away or nap on your lunch break. They offer coffee, hot chocolate, tea, snacks like fruit and granola bars. They have events around Christmas and Back-to-School. Pay and benefits were decent.

Cons

No sick time. They offer very little in the way of training. You'll be trained on the systems you need on your side of the job (Web Help Desk--which is awful; Albert, etc.) but you won't be trained in the technologies you'll be supporting. 100+ schools and civic organizations, each with their own hardware and software: Window, mac, iPad, Chromebooks, smart boards, Apple TVs, security cameras. Their method of training is to throw you into the deep end and see if you swim or drown. August and September are the deepest pools because of the schools are bringing the kids and teachers back in. Your queue could balloon to over 100 tickets. And good luck getting responses back from busy teachers. No clear escalation channels. We're actually titled "Generalists" because we're expected to support and troubleshoot everything. Admins are the next level up, but they are either technology-specific or everything under the sun and bogged down. You're supposed to keep your ticket and ask them to help. Very unclear when you can just assign it to them. And if it needs to go further, to infrastructure, you better have dotted all your i's and crossed your t's or they'll send it back. Male to female ratio in the technology areas (support and infrastructure) lean HEAVILY male. Can count the females on one hand.

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5.0
24 Oct 2025
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Pros

Menlo is a fast paced Core Values driven organization. The culture is to go above and beyond to problem solve for our clients. That culture fosters incredible loyalty both internally and externally.

Cons

Some teams are just now being organized in a way that fosters clear career development opportunities.

1.0
29 Oct 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Outside of upper management, most of the people I worked with were great people.

Cons

This is hands down the worst place I have ever worked. Long hours, terrible pay, constantly understaffed, upper management is heartless and only care about money, turnover rate is about 90%. The average lifespan is about 6 months, People either burnout and quit, or you are let go and replaced with someone cheaper. If it is your first day on the job, it is common that it’s someone’s last day. you aren’t trained for anything, you aren’t given proper tools to do your job, This job is a foot in the door at best. If you somehow manage to stay for a long period of time, it will hold you back in your career. You will learn next to nothing working here. My advice to anyone considering working here, don’t waste your time. It’s a dead end and you will never advance your career here. There are much better opportunities with employers that actually want to invest in you, advance your career, and actually care about work/life balance.

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