Pros
Verkada has great benefits -- daily meals, wellness stipend, 100% covered health insurance, etc. I met fantastic people while working there -- my team was great, the people in my cohort are awesome and we planned outings together. Super young/fresh out of college if that's what you're looking for. Great opportunities for career growth. Most of the people I worked with were promoted quickly through the sales org into AE and managerial roles.
Cons
There's a lot of things I wish I knew before accepting my offer. A big one is that you will NOT receive commission. I did not know that this was out of the norm for SDR roles. And the base is lower than industry standard as well. Most tech SDR roles offer close to 100k after commission. Verkada offers 50k. MDRs take a pay cut when they are funneled into the program. Secondly, you will be making 100 to 200 calls daily to hit activity metrics. If you love to cold call, then great, this is for you, however, you will not have access to Linkedin Sales Nav or be encouraged to engage in email campaigns. Third, you will be working close to 12 hours daily if you want to keep your weekends free. I had to give up things like family birthdays because I had to study for weekly test outs. In order to graduate from the program, you need to have essentially all greens on your "report card". What this means is 100% on every single test out, exceed quota during bootcamp (which they raise every time a new cohort comes through) and exceed the number of qualified opportunities every 70 days. If you consistently do not get greens, you will have a talk with one of the managers and the director of the program. Fourth, they funnel in a new cohort every two weeks. This means that the AAE program has over 50 AAEs just in the HQ office with only two sales development managers in office. The sales development managers are young with some of them in the AE role less than a year before getting promoted to manager. It can feel like you are just a number in their program. Lastly, it wasn't uncommon to see my coworkers crying on the job and sharing horror stories about the work environment with one another. If you're interviewing with Verkada I'd ask a lot about the work culture since it's 100% in office and I'd reach out to current AAEs on Linkedin.