Not a good place for engineers - Engineer Verkada Employee Review

1.0
Mar 1, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice and smart coworkers to work with and can have free food and snacks everyday.

Cons

The hardware management team is a disaster. Managers do not support their own engineers but only the higher-level people in the company. The goal of this company is to launch a product every 6 months, but the EPMs and the EPM manager (EPM daddy) do not understand the complexities of the different products. The only thing they care about is the timeline. Besides, the company does not know what kind of product to build, so instead, they would like to build one product with way more features than what is actually needed. Many products are white-labeled as well just to support the quick launch time. Some managers do not value or respect people, which could be painful for recent graduates working here. Additionally, they are super busy and will not have time to support the engineers.

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5.0
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Pros

Solid market fit, significant demand for our offerings

Cons

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1.0
Jul 4, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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