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NEW: ‘Bro Culture’ at Camera Maker Verkada Pushed Profits, Parties
This story is based on interviews with eight current Verkada employees and 15 former employees.
(w/ @mcbridesg @rj_gallagher @BrodyFord_) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-09/-bro-culture-at-camera-maker-verkada-pushed-profits-parties?sref=ylv224K8
This story is based on interviews with eight current Verkada employees and 15 former employees.
(w/ @mcbridesg @rj_gallagher @BrodyFord_) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-09/-bro-culture-at-camera-maker-verkada-pushed-profits-parties?sref=ylv224K8
In-office parties -- even during the pandemic -- were prone to excessive drinking and occasional drug use, according to the employees.
“Verkada gives frat boys a bad name,” one former sales employee said. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-09/-bro-culture-at-camera-maker-verkada-pushed-profits-parties?sref=ylv224K8
“Verkada gives frat boys a bad name,” one former sales employee said. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-09/-bro-culture-at-camera-maker-verkada-pushed-profits-parties?sref=ylv224K8
Employees have told Bloomberg that the inattention to data protection was emblematic of a larger “bro culture” that was sophomoric and sales obsessed, and which tolerated the harassment of women, frequent partying and misleading marketing claims. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-09/-bro-culture-at-camera-maker-verkada-pushed-profits-parties?sref=ylv224K8
Videos uploaded to Instagram show Verkada employees partying during the pandemic and chanting "Money! Money! Money!" (Verkada said the party was a "lapse in judgement," employees told us this happens frequently.) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-09/-bro-culture-at-camera-maker-verkada-pushed-profits-parties?sref=ylv224K8
Earlier this year, Verkada fired a sales manager who exposed himself to another employee at an out-of-office party. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-09/-bro-culture-at-camera-maker-verkada-pushed-profits-parties?sref=ylv224K8
Sales employees told potential customers that Verkada was "virtually unhackable" and that it had hired cybersecurity company Okta to preform a penetration test. Turns out neither was true. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-09/-bro-culture-at-camera-maker-verkada-pushed-profits-parties?sref=ylv224K8
According to hundreds of emails obtained via public records requests, Verkada would market itself to potential customers as "a MIT/Stanford company."
Both MIT and Stanford said they are not affiliated with Verkada. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-09/-bro-culture-at-camera-maker-verkada-pushed-profits-parties?sref=ylv224K8
Both MIT and Stanford said they are not affiliated with Verkada. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-09/-bro-culture-at-camera-maker-verkada-pushed-profits-parties?sref=ylv224K8
Verkada threw parties in the office, during the pandemic. Excessive drinking was the norm, current and former employees said, and two people told me they saw cocaine use. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-09/-bro-culture-at-camera-maker-verkada-pushed-profits-parties?sref=ylv224K8
A sales team scavenger hunt ended with drunken Verkada employees piling into a Casper mattress store where they bounced on the mattresses, wrestled with each other and posed for pictures. Engineers were told they could expense noise cancelling headphones. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-09/-bro-culture-at-camera-maker-verkada-pushed-profits-parties?sref=ylv224K8
Two former staffers described a loud discussion in the open-plan office about a well-qualified job candidate. A Verkada marketing executive said he didn’t want to hire her because she was a mother and wouldn’t be motivated to work on weekends. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-09/-bro-culture-at-camera-maker-verkada-pushed-profits-parties?sref=ylv224K8
