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Not a positive environment

Software Developer
Former Employee
Worked at Veeva Systems for 4 years
April 27, 2018
Toronto, Ontario
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Decent pay, stock options are valuable, relevant technologies, and the occasional team-building event.

Cons

Poor management decisions and reaction to escalation. Pressure to do what you are told, even if there is a better option. A lot of working on your own. Seniors scapegoating when things go wrong. Unhappy and unhelpful peers who seem to disappear a lot. Having to hear peers complain openly about how tools, work, and people are terrible, but they don't get to defend themselves.

Once, I heard two management personnel joking, 'This person should be fired' when something went wrong. That's not even funny, and from anyone else, it wouldn't be acceptable, but management seems to get away with a lot.

Don't get on their bad side... or you are on your own.

Advice to Management

Listen and investigate before acting on assumptions or doing the first thing you think of.

Think before you act or speak, because what you say about people has consequences, whether you meant it that way or not.

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