Best Product Industry, Evolving Comp Plans for AE's - Account Executive Verkada Employee Review

3.0
Apr 16, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Verkada has the best physical security platform hands down, tremendous training, and almost every sales resource imaginable at your disposal.

Cons

Verkada is constantly changing their compensation package. They don't cut your base, but year after year AE's lose earning (commission) potential through restructuring roles (explained below): - Splitting Territories: Lose 1/2 of your accounts for a "new AE" to have a "new territory", or potentially 1/3 of your accounts where two established reps lose 1/3 of their account base, carving out a "new territory" for a new AE. - Re-Tiering Account List: Mid Market Sales is a majority of Verkada's salesforce. They restructured Mid Market sales creating a "new role" for the established customer & prospect base in a given territory. Transitioning Tier 1 businesses, schools and municipalities to a MM Select role, and taking the bottom two thirds of that territory and assigning it MM Territory role. Same corporate trend of doubling the reps in an existing territory. - Growth vs Strategic AE: A territory previously managed by one AE, is split with historical AE taking over current customers, and losing prospect accounts with $0 bookings to a "new" growth AE. These changes have a compounding effect on the AE's in seat, and their ability to hit OTE and accelerators. The account base and roles constantly change, but quotas stay the same. In a realistic (true) situation, an AE is given a patch of 500 accounts, down the line lose 150 accounts in a 1/3 split for a "new territory", shortly after lose their tier one accounts, going from 350 accounts to ~300. Shortly after that, the AE is no longer measured or compensated on existing customer renewals.

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5.0
Jul 11, 2026
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Pros

Potential for growth and great compensation if you get a good territory

Cons

8-5 hard office hours, dialing, KPIs.

1.0
Jul 4, 2026
Recommend
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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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