Run for the hills - Account Executive Verkada Employee Review

1.0
Dec 21, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The actual people employed at Verkada are fantastic. Great, great people all around.

Cons

There is so much that its hard to fit in a glassdoor post but if you have any technology experience at all you need to run the opposite direction and never look back. Ignoring the fact that you are wildly underpaid and equity doesn't vest until 1 year at the company which is very rare to make it that far, it's a horrific sweat shop. You have managers with less tech sales experience than most people they hire. They keep a "hustle dashboard" that shames people into making more cold calls throughout the week and for some bizarre reason is almost exclusively tied to "trials" which are just trial cameras that people end up needing to game the system to look good for a detached management team. If you aren't in San Francisco then forget it, they care less than zero about you. For over a year in Austin people requested that Sales Trainings not be held at 6pm CST or later but HQ refused, 3 or 4 PST and that was final. As others have said its a complete lottery regarding your territory. You could cover Manhattan or LA or you could cover North Dakota and it doesn't make a difference your quota is the same. They basically work the poor BDRs to death and don't say a word, those people were working 80 hour weeks including Saturdays because Verkada made it seem like thats what they needed to do. There are a million other fantastic technology companies out there. Unless you badly want Tech Sales experience and this is your only option, run the opposite direction of Verkada and never look back.

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5.0
Jul 6, 2026
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Pros

Collaboration with product team for companies success. Great sense of teamwork and ambition. No one left behind mentality with internal enablement. Amazing Leadership! Amazing products to be sold. Work Hard Play Hard mentality!

Cons

Still building internal roadmaps to success. Continues to have aspects of startup mentality.

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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