Pros: Every person at this company makes huge contributions to the overall whole. In the case of engineering, every engineer owns large parts of the product. Contributions feel meaningful and self-driven. Senior leadership are all experienced, inspiring, committed to employees' well-being, and of good moral fiber. The company is experiencing exceptional and uncharacteristic success for a startup of its size and funding history. The engineering team is close-knit, with a good balance of work, learning, and fun team activities. Some past activities include: * A group painting party * Trip to the San Francisco Symphony * A day out on the bay on a private boat * Board game nights, etc. Also, your colleagues will encourage you to take care of yourself. It's exciting to show up to the office every day!

Cons: Verkada is moving quickly and growing fast, so you should be comfortable going with the flow at times. If you're an engineer that expects rigorous testing with near-complete code coverage, you're not always going to find that.

Pros: Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-energy environment where you can develop and grow as an engineer.

Cons: Sometimes it seems like leadership expects too much, and there are communication gaps.

Pros: Nice and smart coworkers to work with, and you can have free food and snacks every day.

Cons: The hardware management team is a disaster. Managers do not support their own engineers but only the higher-level people in the company. The goal of this company is to launch a product every 6 months, but the EPMs and the EPM manager (EPM daddy) do not understand the complexities of the different products. The only thing they care about is the timeline. Besides, the company does not know what kind of product to build, so instead, they would like to build one product with way more features than what is actually needed. Many products are white-labeled as well just to support the quick launch time. Some managers do not value or respect people, which could be painful for recent graduates working here. Additionally, they are super busy and will not have time to support the engineers.