Positive and supportive dev environment - Software Engineer Veeva Systems Employee Review

4.0
3 July 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Overall I enjoyed my time working at Veeva for a few years. * The culture is supportive, and at the time among the engineering, it was easy to reach out and ask anyone for help, even if they were from different teams. * Genuinely enjoyed almost all of my coworkers that I interacted with - somehow Veeva manages to hire well-meaning, thoughtful, and intelligent people with no pretension. * It's a pretty good place for new grads / interns. Veeva's set up a good process for onboarding new devs, probably even more so now that the products are more stabilized. * Management seems to be accommodating with requests for internal team switches. * RSU stock compensation. * Physical exercise classes at the HQ at the time (circuit training, yoga, etc). (Not sure if still a thing.) * Included lunch and snacks at the HQ cafeteria at the time.

Cons

* Very customer-focused (in terms of values, "employee success" comes after "customer success"), so there's a big focus on churning out features, perhaps at the expense of quality, writing test code, etc. * Not exactly sure how people go about self-improvement or doing too many new / innovative things. But it's fine if you're fine with being a code monkey, which most people are kind of okay with. * As the code base grows, code maintenance and production issue troubleshooting becomes trickier. * Somewhat questionable work-life balance - it's up to the engineer to set some self-restrictions and work boundaries, because there is always more work to be done.

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5.0
16 June 2026
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Pros

The role involves a lot of repetitive tasks. Depending on your personality, that either makes the job easier over time as you become more efficient, or it gradually becomes frustrating. The upside is that once you learn the role, it can serve as a strong stepping stone to move into other positions within the company.

Cons

It's a repetitive, call-center type role. Once you're in it, there isn't much room to grow within the department. Most people either stay and plateau or eventually move to another department before the repetition and workload lead to burnout.

3.0
22 June 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Large presence in the industry and good-hearted, intelligent, and well-meaning people work there. Stable company, not going to be purchased by private equity and endure large layoffs

Cons

part of their motto is "do the right thing" but that's not applied when it comes to salaries or work-life balance. working weekends and well past normal hours seems to be a regular thing that most people are doing. a manager's solution to my issue of having more work than was feasible to complete was just to work longer days. "Veeva Speed" is a sugarcoated phrase everyone uses to indicate being overworked and initial training is like drinking from a fire hose; this company makes enough money to hire the correct amount of people to do the work and pay them fairly.

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