Anyone have any experience with this company? how is the WLB, culture, and pay as an SDE?
I am an employee here in the engineering team. WLB and culture are some of the strongest positives of this company. They are currently ramping up the engineering team and the hiring targets are next to crazy but I am seeing them steadily reach their goal. The engineers do work closely with the design team and product managers for the features we get out the door every quarter to our customers hands. We did experience typical growing startup pains that comes from upping the eng team headcount from ten to fifty in just a few quarters. Generally it takes time for the dust to settle and ideas to come to fruition when new members work together for the first time. We have succeeded nevertheless, mainly because of three main factors 1) colleagues who push each other to succeed 2) work culture 3) an awesome VP of eng who keeps teams together
It’s churn and burn
Definitely wouldn't recommend working here. This company has significantly deteriorated since Dec 2019 when you asked the question. Read the Blind reviews. I can confirm that the negative reviews are unfortunately all true. WLB - non existent. Everyone works 80+ hour workweeks. Culture - the worst I've ever experienced, and I've been at some bad places in the past. Pay is the only thing that isn't horrible. It's average to above average I'd say. I'm pasting one of the reviews below for reference. Management/Founders are toxic bullies who impose racist and sexist norms across the company. They hire based on “pedigree” which means White from Stanford first. Their women in leadership are leaving in a mass exodus, because of a hostile work environment, and the boys club at the top doesn’t care about their workers. Despite the slow hiring pace and pandemic it’s all sprints and insanity for engineering all the time. No time off or time to take a breath. Some execs live above the office rent free. Founders throw office parties during a pandemic where people aren’t wearing masks and are sharing drinks and food openly. Fraternization on the sales team is a well known fact at previous company events ( especially with a primarily male leadership team on sales, one of whom has had known sexual harassment complaints.) This place is a culture dumpster fire, but hey, you might make some money if you keep your head down, work yourself to death and never have an opinion that management doesn’t agree with.
@eidnfk. I edited my comment. From what I’ve heard lately, it sounds not awesome.
Any update on culture here?
Just as bad if not worse :(
How’s HR? Have they started to get a handle on the issues?
HR consists of one person who wasn't even supposed to do HR but was forced to after the whole HR department quit. She has no power and just does what the top leadership says. Nobody bothers going to her with anything because it's pointless. There is no getting a handle on issues because leadership thinks that the only issue is verkada's public image. They are trying to make the company look good on the outside, even though it's rotten on the inside.
I second the other comments here. Wouldn't recommend. Not in the slightest.
Favorite place I've worked at :) The company maintains such euphoric energy
Hey, any recent update about Verkada? Change? Improvement? Or getting worse?
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Edit: things seem not so great now... I know someone who works there and they’re always raving about it. He said culture is amazing especially for SDE. They pretty much give you anything and everything you ask for. You get free cameras for your home if you want. They pay for installation and everything. They even reserved the closest parking spots for the SDEs. The engineering managers (mobile he knows best but he mentioned others are good) are really caring and devoted to the company. Their pay is competitive. I think the only negative he said was the design team isn’t the best.
Thanks for the insight!
Do you know what specifically wasnt great about the design team?