RUN: Awfully toxic leaders - Anonymous employee Veeva Systems Employee Review

1.0
May 11, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Engineering teams are amongst the best I've worked with.

Cons

- terribly permissive with harassing behavior: some people are notoriously known for their toxic behavior (I'm talking about calling them "stupid" in a call with more than 10 people, yelling and so on), yet their managers hide their head in the sand and do NOTHING. - some groups overcommit without any due diligence: scoping work, estimating effort, checking their dependencies and so on, and they fall short of their promises they blame others - toxic bosses: little to zero people skills, emotional empathy or emotional intelligence. Manager have told employees they were going to be fired after losing close families and before getting married. Borderline psychopath. - managers pushing BS features without clear indication that feature was needed, lack of roadmap ownership and directors throwing their direct reports under the bus when VPs challenged the roadmap the directors had pushed. - the hiring process is a joke: 6+ interviews to "make sure they hire the right attitude" because "they hire for the long term" and when they realize you aren't a sycophant they'll let you go.

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5.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The role involves a lot of repetitive tasks. Depending on your personality, that either makes the job easier over time as you become more efficient, or it gradually becomes frustrating. The upside is that once you learn the role, it can serve as a strong stepping stone to move into other positions within the company.

Cons

It's a repetitive, call-center type role. Once you're in it, there isn't much room to grow within the department. Most people either stay and plateau or eventually move to another department before the repetition and workload lead to burnout.

3.0
Jun 22, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Large presence in the industry and good-hearted, intelligent, and well-meaning people work there. Stable company, not going to be purchased by private equity and endure large layoffs

Cons

part of their motto is "do the right thing" but that's not applied when it comes to salaries or work-life balance. working weekends and well past normal hours seems to be a regular thing that most people are doing. a manager's solution to my issue of having more work than was feasible to complete was just to work longer days. "Veeva Speed" is a sugarcoated phrase everyone uses to indicate being overworked and initial training is like drinking from a fire hose; this company makes enough money to hire the correct amount of people to do the work and pay them fairly.

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