I Ignored the Reviews Here and Heavily Paid the Price - Sales Verkada Employee Review

1.0
13 Nov 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people who work here are the only redeeming quality about the company. The product is great.

Cons

Please read every single one-star review about this place. I sure wish I had. When you're interviewing, they fly you out to their fancy office laden with food and amenities in every corner to dazzle you with this gleaming farce of success. Like many others, I felt like this job was what I had been looking for all along. I uprooted my life for this job, lured by their promises of hitting high quotas - they boasted an average rep attainment of 105% in their first 3 quarters . But that was just nonsense. In reality, only 1 out of 50 in my division actually hit those targets in a quarter, and it was only because they got lucky with big deals that the reps before them slaved on for months before they got canned. And the salary? It's a joke. We're talking a base of $55,000 to $75,000, which is way below what you need to survive in the Bay Area. And those big numbers they dangle for On-Target Earnings (OTE), like $120,000 to $160,000? Keep dreaming. "You get equity," they say. They conveniently don't mention that it only starts vesting after a year, which, by the way, is 4 months longer than the average employee's lifespan at the company. They know you're not going to make it that far, so they hold the equity away from you to get away from actually giving you any. It's diabolical. They just want someone to manage the territory until they fire them and bring in someone who will do the job for even less pay. Ramp up, Rinse and Repeat. They give sales reps like 500-1000 RSUs over 4 years ($2k to $4k) while they give their engineers like 40,000-50,000 RSUs ($120k-$200k). I've seen the contract letters. If you're handling an East Coast territory, they expect you at the office by 5 or 6 AM. It's like working in a call center or sweatshop, where you're scrambling to build your pipeline and manage all your projects all on your own. The deceit they show towards employees, customers, and shareholders is just outrageous. It's even worse if you're new to the job market – they exploit that inexperience. You see it with the poor new grad BDRs, working insane 80-hour weeks, making calls and cramming for quizzes, just trying to get ahead on the CHANCE that they can get promoted (they have to reinterview after 4 months or they get fired). And the real blow? They set the same ridiculous quotas for reps in completely different markets, like Arkansas and New York. It's clear they don't care about setting you up for success. This company is a textbook example of the dark side of capitalism. My advice? Stay away from this place. Don't even work in other departments or roles for this company. Dishonest employers don't deserve honest and hardworking employees. I honestly would've been better off jobless (I wish I avoided this entire headache), but now I'm stuck paying $2,500 a month to live in a closet in San Francisco, all because I fell for their line about making big money.

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5.0
6 Jul 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Collaboration with product team for companies success. Great sense of teamwork and ambition. No one left behind mentality with internal enablement. Amazing Leadership! Amazing products to be sold. Work Hard Play Hard mentality!

Cons

Still building internal roadmaps to success. Continues to have aspects of startup mentality.

1.0
4 Jul 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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