In a public announcement from our CEO, Verkada has still elected to keep most people on the team from the slack group. All of those members stem from the VP of sales and Enterprises Director of sales relationship’s in Danville. It’s clear the company is trying to save face rather than do the right thing and clear house. The enterprise director previously ran the entire sales team but after a sex scandal with a current salesperson he was remitted to leading the enterprise efforts. which is hardly a demotion. While doing damage control, they are still sending the wrong message that only what gets into the public is going to be handled appropriately. They need to remove everyone from that group. While I don’t think the VP/Ent Director were in that specific slack group which was public, there were other private groups and they should do an investigation. The culture is still set from senior leadership, not mid-managers. This is a pivotal moment where I hope they bring in a CRO and get us more mature/diverse leadership. I can only imagine what us newer hires don’t know but it’s clear things are rough now.
Most in the group, save for those who said maybe the most offensive things, are current managers today! Nothing I have said is a rumor. It’s all true. I understand your position as a larger shareholder but you, as someone senior, should make sure we don’t repeat the same mistake! We have managers leading women that were part of the group. Pure and simple, make a change and stop protecting everyone one.
You are very misinformed. Please speak to HR if you think management hasn’t dealt with the situation properly because I also feel much better about this. Otherwise just leave the company? Why do you like Verkada?
OP is right. Just do the right thing! How hard is it?
As a current employee I can confidently say the person who wrote that review is a bitter ex employee who was most likely fired for underperforming. The enterprise director wasn’t involved in a “sex scandal” with a salesperson. They liked each other, she didn’t report to him, and they started dating...something that happens at every company in existence. The two are still together years later and own a home and dog together. Nice try, keep reaching.
Lol
Whether he/she is a bitter ex employee or not, the post is not wrong. She did report to the enterprise director during the beginning of the relationship. And yes, the board did want to fire him for an inappropriate relationship. But our chairman stepped in and said it was fine. This is the culture we have. Stuff that is inappropriate at any other workplace is perfectly fine at Verkada, apparently. Unless it hits the media. Then it's bad and should be stopped. This company is a joke.
"Face match… find me a squirt," the sales director wrote in the company Slack channel in August 2019. The comment was posted along with a series of photos of employees’ faces captured with the office's surveillance system which were patched together using a Verkada facial recognition feature. "Face search,” as it’s called, can pinpoint an individual in a sea of faces. The pinpointed face, in this instance, belonged to a Verkada employee, her mouth wide open. Two members of the Slack channel reacted with laughing emojis. Another commented "lol."
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As an older employee who's not from Danville, I can reassure this new employee that you have let perception of external PR and rumors influence what is truly reality. The biggest mistake made by the sales management was the type of punishment that it gave 2 of the managers in this incident. Severe financial penalties vs termination was the mistake. The fact that they fired 3 means they are firing everyone who held managerial positions involved including those who did not speak up about it. The misunderstanding is that they did not comprehend that the incident would make others working for them feel uncomfortable moving forward. Now that it's been rectified, I feel like management can move forward and continue to take appropriate steps to invest in its people, and I have full faith that they will.
You make it sound like that is an okay mistake. How could they not comprehend that the incident would make others feel uncomfortable working for those people? That is so obvious. Some of these victimized women had to report to these directors who had violated them on Slack for over a year. It's ridiculous and negligent that management thought this was okay and makes me realize that they cannot be trusted.
I was here when management made this mistake. I heard management consulted other women in sales (who were very few at the time) and the victims ultimately asked to not terminate the directors so I don't think management was as negligent as you think. I can see how management can make such a mistake even though it is a bad one. Glad they changed it and also dealt with the other director properly this time around.