Verkada reviews

if you're considering a job here, make sure you read the NEGATIVE reviews, and know that they're true. if you're okay with all of it, then go for it! i will keep this short, but know that the good reviews on here are canned and written by the early employees that got all the benefit, got promoted, and are sliding doing very little work. If you're reading this because you were aggressively recruited, know that the negative reviews are entirely TRUE. If you can see yourself being okay with it, then by all means join a company that pays below average and micromanages you to the bone. I'm trying to save even one person from potentially MOVING to a new subpar city for a job that they will end up hating. If I can save you the pain, this would be a success. They force you to be in the office, even when theres an Covid cases testing positive in the office. It's not one or two or three disgruntled or even fired employees. Its the masses of us (cuz there are masses - 10 new AEs every week!) who were duped into starting at this company, pulled away from our great previous employers, sold the dream, only to hate our lives because of terrible leadership and culture. Save yourself from 1. feeling like you have to stay because you dont want to look like a job hopper 2. being a job hopper. i implore you to reach out to a few new reps on linkedin - reps that have been there for less than 6 months (theres a lot of them) ask them if they like it, and watch them be hesitant.

-They have cut patches down every quarter I've been there but kept quotas the same. A guy on my team used to run the whole state, since then he now has a third of the state. On top of that, they split into SLED and commercial. So you'll have to hit 300/350k(Midmarket) every three months with a lot fewer businesses to sell to. -While you can get promoted pretty quickly from SDR to AE, it seems like some great people get passed over for other people for manager positions. Another guy on my team is probably top three in the company as an AE. He started as an SDR, had a million-dollar quarter, and has always outperformed his quota, but because he is young he doesn't even get to interview for manager positions. -If your manager doesn't like you, you're most likely gone after two quarters (me). My manager is easily one of the best managers in the company there, if not the best, but he and I just didn't gel very well. Even though I did 127% in my first quarter, but did very badly in my second quarter he decided to let me go because 'I didn't transact enough'. Other people in the company have missed quota two or three times and they didn't even get talked to. If I would've played the buddy-buddy game, I would probably still be at Verkada. Instead, it's like I got peed on in Hawaii by someone on a balcony. -Can't really take lunch towards the end of the quarter or you and your whole team will get talked to. The closer you are towards the end of the quarter the more the invisible lock and chains come out. We were gone for 27mins, but that is unacceptable in the eyes of management. -There was an issue with directors and managers taking screenshots of girls and putting them into a slack channel. They would make sexual comments about these girls. Pretty sure all the people involved (making comments and adding photos to the channel) are gone. -Sometimes there are bugs in the software. Engineers are pushed to rush products out and sometimes they're halfbaked. Other times the whole system will go down. -If you've never worked in the channel before this could be a huge headache. Verkada is 100% channel. Channel partners are trying to get the biggest nut just like everyone else, and that can slow deals down, have them pitch competitors, or just not want to work with you. Before I worked here, Verkada did use to sell direct. We have a guy that will do a paper flip, but it sounds like his days are soon to be gone too sadly.