NOTE: this is for VDE, I don’t have experience with the rest of the company. Basically, if you work for Veeva Digital Events, it’s a giant club. You must be overly friendly with the upper management or you will be the next to be laid off. Veeva is still talking as if they are going to meet their 10,000 employees by 2030 or whenever but VDE is going to lay enough people off that they will probably sabotage that target on their own. They have required everyone to show up at the office despite the fact that I wasn’t hired to be onsite, and the fact that literally the whole department I worked for still got to work from home since they are scattered around the country. This resulted in a 90 minute commute each way for me (just to sit in front of a computer as I did at home), but I begrudgingly did it, just to be laid off for not having enough work. Whose fault is that? The lowly coordinators who will bear the brunt of management’s terrible decisions? The only benefit of this position is free lunch on Tuesdays from some godawful restaurant (the office is in the middle of nowhere). The 401k match is garbage and their stock will soon be tanking anyway (look at the broader economy). This branch of the company has been plummeting ever since I joined, and I can only surmise that the highest ups and their cronies are running it into the ground on purpose. Oh right, they have some silly happy hour every month after hours and they imply very strongly that you should attend. That and forcing you into the office is their idea of building a “company culture”. If they spent half as much time improving their business as they do checking their employees’ LinkedIn profiles to see which employees are planning to leave so they can be pushed out, maybe they’d have a chance at not completely cratering their business. Oh well.
