Regret joining this company - Engineer Verkada Employee Review

1.0
16 Jan 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Rapid growth and nice swag

Cons

The engineering culture is toxic. Absentee executive management means very poor communications and coordination across the engineering org. It's cut throat to try and get a bonus/raise/promotion. Verkada is really a sales company with an engineering dept, it's far from a tech company. They routinely release products way before it's ready, but as long as it sells, that's all that matters. Don't buy into the hype of the company valuation, they're basing it off the company being a SaaS, when in fact Verkada is a hardware company which has a much lower multiple.

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1.0
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Pros

Some of the people are kind, intelligent, and very thoughtful, which made the rest manageable when it unbearable Fancy perks: food, coffee bar

Cons

This is the worst company I have ever worked for. Inexperienced leadership and middle management creates an air of stress, anxiety, and frustration across all areas of the workplace. People often snap at each other, burn out, and successes are rarely recognized or celebrated. There is no sense of team unity. I even witnessed a monkey being brought into the office to be posed for photos during an end of quarter celebration. There is little flexibility for people not being in-office due to family/outside issues. There are too many meetings with no clear organization or purpose, and messages/emails are often sent late into the night, on holidays, and on weekends. I wish someone had warned me not to work here before I started, it was some of the worst days of my life.

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