5200$ per yr added on to w2 for "free lunches" - Senior IT Engineer Veeva Systems Employee Review

2.0
May 12, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people there were nice. Family oriented people that was happy to work at tech company near home. Which is why they turn a blind eye to what Im writing in my cons.

Cons

If your at the HQ in Pleasanton, your essentially forced to buy the food from the company to help their bottom line with no opt out choice! They'll blow smoke up you as, telling you it's a taxable perk that all companies do, like Facebook and Google. (BS because I've work at both those companies, they don't nickel and dime employees. They write off as business expenses as it should be. Google did this with past xmas gifts but I had the option not to accept the gift at retail cost added to my w2. ) 5200$ / 260 work days = 20$ per meal veeva sold you, for a meal you did or did not have. They let so many good employees \ worker go due to be cheap af and not paying people their worth\market rate. My promotion bump was 7.8% after being there 1yr. I laughed and left a mo later without another gig lined up. WorkDay is generally where their ex employees go since it's down the road and managements treatment of employees and benefits are much better. CEO gives perception he cares but if you've ever had to deal with him, like us in IT did during company calls (often) dude acts like a dic head.

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5.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Work culture, team, free lunch at office, work from anywhere option, flexible.

Cons

Could pay a little better, no more flexible PTO

3.0
Jun 22, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Large presence in the industry and good-hearted, intelligent, and well-meaning people work there. Stable company, not going to be purchased by private equity and endure large layoffs

Cons

part of their motto is "do the right thing" but that's not applied when it comes to salaries or work-life balance. working weekends and well past normal hours seems to be a regular thing that most people are doing. a manager's solution to my issue of having more work than was feasible to complete was just to work longer days. "Veeva Speed" is a sugarcoated phrase everyone uses to indicate being overworked and initial training is like drinking from a fire hose; this company makes enough money to hire the correct amount of people to do the work and pay them fairly.

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