Meteor allowed us to prototype very quickly. We were able to build several different versions of the interface to see what worked, and then spent the majority of our development time polishing it.

Meteor being real-time also made some cool features really easy, like new candidates showing up in the inbox without having to refresh or poll.

Overall, I'd say development in Meteor was significantly faster than any other framework I've used.

Meteor is one vision for the future of CRUD applications, I think.