Make big contributions to an industry-changing product - Software Engineer Verkada Employee Review

5.0
13 Dec 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

* Every person at this company makes huge contributions to the overall whole. In the case of engineering, every engineer owns large parts of the product. Contributions feel meaningful and self-driven. * Senior leadership are all experienced, inspiring, committed to employees' well being, and of good moral fiber. * Company is experiencing exceptional and uncharacteristic success for a startup of its size and funding history. * Engineering team is close-knit, with a good balance work, learning, and fun team activities. Some past activities include a group painting party, trip to the San Francisco Symphony, a day out on the bay on a private boat, board game nights, etc. Also, your colleagues will encourage you to take care of yourself. * It's exciting to show up to the office every day!

Cons

* Verkada is moving quickly and growing fast, so you should be comfortable going with the flow at times. * If you're an engineer that expects rigorous testing with near-complete code coverage, you're not always going to find that.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
4 Jul 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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