A life sciences enterprise software company with stellar growth and great potential
Pros
- CEO is a hands-on technical visionary, humble, down to earth and very smart. You can search for Veeva on youtube to find some videos where the CEO talks about the company and the amazing growth. Once you see these videos for yourself, you will realize that some of the negative comments from other reviewers here are either fake or posted by incompetent former employees. - The company is very profitable and has achieved stellar growth in the last few years. - Company has great vision and values. Employees are encouraged to freely move around between roles and teams based on their interests. - Veeva HQ in Pleasanton has a very modern and vibrant office building, free lunch and free snacks everyday, free fitness classes and conveniently located near to the Bart station. - The company culture is focused on getting things done fast - everything is very efficient. IT and facilities are very fast and responsive unlike many other larger companies in the bay area. The software development processes and release timelines are very efficiently structured and predictable. - Excellent opportunities to work in a variety of software roles including cloud services, devops, mobile application development, automated testing and product management - Most of the product managers are really talented and come up with new features that add value and help win more customers. - Flexible PTO policy in addition to the year end break. - Decent RSU package
Cons
- Salary and benefits are slightly lower compared to other cloud software companies. 401K match is very low. No bonus or profit sharing. - Too much importance given to the UX team and product managers while opinions of experienced developers and QA engineers are ignored. Even if the UX or product manager has very less practical working experience, they dominate meetings and make final decisions. The typical technical discussion ends with - "Just do as you are told". This results in customer facing defects that could have been avoided by focusing on proper design and "doing it right the first time" instead of "doing it in less time". - Even though the lunch is free, sometimes the food is terrible because the chefs like to put their salty sauce in everything. A typical entree involves a lot of tomato sauce with a lot of salt. Even fruit salads are not spared from the attack of the salty sauce. - The December holiday/shutdown has fixed dates making it difficult for employees who have family or relatives in Asia and need a longer break and flexibility with air travel. - Lack of inclusiveness - Some teams have people from certain races who speak their native language at their cubicles and also at lunch and exclude others. This can be seen with asian and russian native language speakers who have loud technical discussions with each other in their native dialect and thus excluding other team members from contributing to the discussion. However, this issue is not unique to Veeva and is typical of many bay area companies.
