Pros
*Awesome coworkers. They are kind, friendly, and helpful. *Vault is very robust - but also has a steep learning curve. *Products and applications continue to improve. *Work From Home is an option if working far from an office. *Part of total compensation is given as RSUs (stock grants), but this is only good when stock increases over time. *Veeva Break (Giving everyone between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day off). This is a great perk, but then they take away a holiday in January and only allow so many vacation days. *Sick time is not counted for vacation days, but it is still tracked. *$4000 401K match. So, not a percentage, but a set amount. *Decent/Standard Healthcare. (United Healthcare)
Cons
*The biggest con for me is the lack of PTO and PTO flexibility. Within the past few years Veeva went from a flexible/unlimited model to a fairly hard 15 days of vacation for everyone in the company, regardless of employment duration. You need manager approval to schedule more than 5 days in a row and VP approval to schedule more than 2 weeks off in a row. So - if you want to plan a 2-3 -week tour to Europe next summer and then have a few extra days throughout the year? Sorry. Use what's given wisely. The hard-line PTO policy is honestly a slap in the face to employees, and to think otherwise is disingenuous. In a Q&A with the CEO, an employee said that removing the Unlimited PTO and putting a hard 15 days was not beneficial to employees, especially when Veeva talks about how much they care about their employees. The CEO claimed that it was good for employees because there were arguments in the past between managers and employees over how much time can be taken for vacation. Now those arguments don't happen anymore, making everyone happier. Of course they don't argue - since PTO is no longer flexible. I almost didn't take the job or go farther with the recruiter when she said everyone gets 15 vacation days each year, but hoped over time this would change. I had almost double this amount of vacation in a previous company prior to moving over to Veeva and was shocked when learning about Veeva's PTO policy. Fortunately, they just changed the policy to allow those who have worked at least 5 years to have another 5 days of vacation. That's better, but still not as good as most other tech companies. And someone has to wait those 5 years to get any additional days. And then, just one day after this good news, they said we'd no longer be observing Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in 2026 because it interfered with work and was too close to the end of December holiday break. Not cool. This company claims to "do the right thing." The right thing here would've been to replace the MLK holiday with another one later in the year. You don't take holidays away from your workforce and expect everyone to be happy about it. When Veeva fixes their PTO system to give more PTO days from the beginning and over tenure - and add back the holiday they just removed, I'd probably change this to a 4 or 5 star review. *I also don't appreciate the CEO saying in every meeting that "It's not about the money" ... "what we do is not about the money" ... when he is worth several billion dollars. That's easy for him to say when he's set for several lifetimes, but when his employees can't even afford a modest house on their salary, saying 'it's not about the money' is a little tone deaf and discouraging. 20% of my compensation is tied to Veeva Stock and I only get access to it on a quarterly basis. When stocks fall in value (like they are now), so does my paycheck.
