Verkada reviews

There is so much wrong with this company it is truly a challenge to put it into words, but alas someone must undertake this Herculean effort. From the very beginning of the process Verkada is a disaster. The recruiters will message basically anyone in the country that has an ounce of sales experience in any field even remotely related to tech or hardware. This was honestly embarrassing being someone who has a lot of friends in tech, as the recruiters would blow them up for months on end, and it was pretty obvious to everybody how desperate Verkada was to hire. If you are one of the unlucky souls, as I was, to get lured in with the "pre-ipo startup" pipe dream, the recruiters will blatantly lie about every single aspect of the role. Did they tell you its 50/50 inbound and outbound, that the average attainment is 132%, and that you'll be getting competitive pay? All lies!! Thanks to inept leadership all of the territories have the exact same quota, which if you look at ANY other sales organization it is just not the case. And if you just use common sense and the critical thinking skills of an 8 year old, its because Los Angeles or Marin County is going to have more money, people, and willingness to buy the highest tech security system there is than the folks in North Dakota or Louisiana. What ends up happening is that there are maybe 10% of reps that have these unbelievable territories where they literally do not have to do ANYTHING and they just rake in 150-250% of their quota from current customers or from an insanely built our partner network. What this does for the morale of the rest of the sales floor is indescribably bad. When you have to work day in and day out just to barely scrape to 50% of your number and you see some reps not doing anything and annihilating their number, it takes all the wind out of your sails. However, you would think that leadership would understand the fact that those people did not do much other than win the territory lottery, and that the person who is trying to sell cloud based security cameras in a territory that has more cows than people would get recognized for their hard-work and progress, right? Nope! The lottery winners are vaunted as gods, even if they started 3 weeks before and lucked into a 120k deal which they OBVIOUSLY did not do anything for other than submit the purchase order. For everyone else, leadership will just gaslight you into thinking that if you just work harder, make 300 cold calls a week (which some offices literally make you sign a contract saying you have to make 330 calls a week) that you can also get to the insane heights that the people covering LA or Jersey can get to. The amount of gaslighting and double speak that happens is truly mind boggling. After Verkada missed one of their quotas last year, there was an all hands to discuss went wrong and where we could improve. Leadership told us that they were taking full responsibility for us missing quota, and then on THE NEXT SLIDE went on to show how the rep activity was not high enough and that it was our fault that we missed quota. In the same meeting they also went on this monologue about how they always wants to be transparent , and in the NEXT SENTENCE they talked about "quota and territory adjustments" instead of saying quota raises and territory splits. So much for transparency huh. Now climbing the upper echelons of leadership and where the rotten practices decent from is from the C-Suite. They only see their employees as items to be used to further their own goals. During June of 2020, PEAK COVID, they made everyone come into the office, with absolutely 0 regard for their employees health and well-being. People that were there during that time will tell you that people were getting sick left and right and it did not deter them from relinquishing the control over their employees. Additionally, Verkada uses high pressure, and dishonest sales tactics and I suspect that comes from him the highest levels of the company. To conclude, Verkada is a dishonest organization that lures people in with the dream of career and financial success, and throws them in the meat grinder only to spit them out 6 months later, when they cant sell 2 million dollars worth of security equipment to the outskirts of Cheyenne, Wyoming. They do not care about the people that work there, conducting business with integrity, or the reputation of the company. Stay as far away from this place as you possibly can, I promise you are worth more.