Veeva Systems Software Engineer reviews

- Learning all the tech, software, terminology, products is overwhelming initially. - The core software which creates nearly all products is an insanely huge code base. - Huge code base is annoying to develop in due to size, slowness, and VM that's required. - Software growing pains (see last two points). The company has grown very fast and still looks to add thousands of employees in the next few years. - Some teams aren't as friendly. - Some teams are overwhelmed (dev ops seem to need a lot more people). - Lunch is sometimes meh.

The biggest con is poor management. It was better when the company was smaller, but now there are way too many managers all trying to impress their respective managers rather than do their job. They've developed a toxic culture where they expect their employees to behave more like corporate slaves rather than free-thinkers. They have driven away a good number of excellent engineers/managers simply because they were too outspoken or disagreed with their processes. Management is always focused on customers and never on employee success. They would rather hire someone with questionable experience than to raise salary and promote from within. There is a power imbalance between product managers, DEVs and QAs resulting in a constant push for new features rather than fixing current issues. There is a big emphasis on speed rather than quality, resulting in legacy code being littered everywhere. Overall, this is not a company for ambitious people.