Best Engineering Job I've Ever Had (and I worked at Google) - Staff Software Engineer Verkada Employee Review

5.0
Mar 19, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- Talented, diverse, friendly coworkers: some of the smartest engineers I've been around, from all over the world and every walk of life, and no egos. - Great tech: we are disrupting the physical security space by bringing modern tech to an old (and huge) industry. - Great management team: All co-founders are technical, very transparent and accessible, very disciplined and fact-based in how they make decisions and execute. - Very solid business model: People need to secure their assets and people and that will never change. This is a business Warren Buffet would have no problem investing in, because it's as easy to understand as Coca-Cola.

Cons

- Typical hypergrowth pains (some processes not fully baked yet). Examples would be performance review cycle could be more structured, and some things could be better documented.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 4, 2026
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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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