Mediocre management and few opportunities for growth - Anonymous employee Veracross Employee Review

2.0
24 Oct 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

This company is decent for a first job out of college, and pay is ok for entry level positions. They’ve allowed employees to remain 100% remote if desired, and offer some flexibility in work schedule.

Cons

Most of middle management is comprised of white men hired directly after college who moved up largely due to tenure. Few of them have actual management training or strong leadership abilities, and it shows. Few opportunities for meaningful growth here, but there’s plenty of work to go around. I’ve come to expect frequent increases in responsibilities with dismal (if any) accompanying pay increases. Work life balance is not great. Workloads and stress levels are often high, and taking time off usually just results in a nightmare of work piled up when you get back. Training is lacking. The hands off/figure it out approach is often used, which puts a lot of pressure on new employees to teach themselves how to do their jobs well.

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Veracross Response
4y
Thank you for sharing your feedback. While Veracross continues to grow rapidly, we are also investing heavily in our People & Culture initiatives, including leadership and management training, professional development, hiring a DEI Program Coordinator, and increasing diversity throughout management and the company. Work/life balance and enabling our employees to take the time off that they need is also a key focus area for our company. With three weeks of PTO, 14 paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, and enabling employees to work during times that are most convenient for them, we continually strive to provide flexibility and balance for all members of the Veracross team. We will continue to invest in these critical areas and will hold ourselves accountable to ensure these tangible steps have an impact throughout all parts of our company.

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The people are the real answer to why I've stayed. The leaders I've reported to have been consistently strong, and my colleagues across teams operate with a genuine sense of mutual investment. We help each other out. That's not a given at any company, and it's held true here through a lot of change. My role has grown alongside the company, and that parallel trajectory has been one of the more satisfying parts of the job. As Veracross has scaled, new challenges have opened up rather than narrowed. The work has been visible to leadership, and that visibility has felt earned rather than performative. Remote work post-COVID has been handled well. We're back in the office in a limited capacity, somewhere between once a month and a few weeks a year depending on role. The space itself is worth mentioning: open design, collaborative layout, strong meeting infrastructure, and solid tech connecting remote and in-person participants. It's the kind of space that actually supports how people work. The AI story here is worth its own paragraph. We've been rolling out an AI chatbot for our service organization, and the product team has a significant AI initiative coming in the flagship app. What's notable about both is the approach: deliberate, collaborative, and built around learning together rather than shipping something fast to check a box. Cross-functional knowledge sharing has been a real part of how this has happened, not a talking point. The long tenure numbers say something too. Several colleagues have 15-plus years here. The original cohort from the early days is still largely intact. That kind of retention doesn't happen by accident.

Cons

Growth at this scale comes with costs. Veracross has gone through periods of rebalancing, and that has meant losing colleagues who were valued and well-regarded. Those moments are hard, and the reasoning behind workforce decisions doesn't always reach the people most affected by them. For employees below the senior level, that gap between what leadership sees and what the rest of the org experiences can erode trust quickly, even when the underlying decisions are sound.

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Veracross Response
3w
Thank you for writing your review with the care you did. Ten-plus years is a long time to grow alongside a company and the observations about the team, the AI work, and the long-tenure cohort read as the kind of judgment that only comes from being here through real change. The point about workforce decisions resonates, and we're always working to be clear about the why and be present with the people most affected. The comment about communication lands in the same place. Thank you for the long run, and for being honest about both sides of it.
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