Veho Reviews

- "Profit at all costs". Whereas many startups took the "growth at all costs" mindset, Veho's C-Suite takes the "profit at all costs" mindset. Hire-and-fire cycle has occurred multiple times with various areas (customer/driver support, engineering, product) where operations are built out to meet market need, scaled out, made efficient, etc. After scale has been achieved and a roadmap is set for optimization, layoffs occur. - Extremely hit-or-miss engineering management during my time there. I believe most EM's have been converted back to IC's, but there was an issue of capable IC's being thrust into management roles without enough of the leadership and management training given in enterprise. This resulted in gross mismanagement of performance evaluation, career development, and basic operational issues; I don't think anyone who caused problems were "bad" people but they weren't ready to be managers. Some of the managers were very good, but stretched thinly. - Heavily top-down prioritization, and one-way communication. Veho's engineering leadership mostly emphasized downwards streams of communication, rather than including upstream comms; a command structure rather than leadership structure. This left them with serious blind spots to the nature of our product portfolio, where only fires would alert them to a technical need (which could've been communicated by other means, i.e. trained and empowered management). Of course, those issues are heaped onto the workload of IC's one way or another. - Little or no regard for the effects of attrition on domain knowledge and organizational morale. Rather than building up a capable organization of motivated individuals with institutionalized technical/domain knowledge, leadership treats corporate teammates as disposable, and cares more about keeping the lights on for the product portfolio. Being an SME is not a guarantee that you'll be included at the table in any decisions, much less given any form of job security or advancement. - As an IC, all of the above resulted in a prospectless career trajectory where I was expected to be the SME on several critical projects, handle critical areas of support, do on-call for other people's products, etc without even a yearly raise. Plenty of rough weekends and tough conversations throughout the weeks as my own achievements rewarded me with... even more work.

For the 2nd year in a row this company has had a mass layoff of a huge portion of its work force without warning right before the holidays even after assuring all employees that their jobs were not in jeopardy. I just don’t understand why they didn’t have enough empathy and respect for their own employees to give them a heads up rather than straight up lying to them. There is very little if any room for growth within the company from this position. Leadership is out of touch with the day to day functions of the role and most recently the American support teams were replaced with AI and overseas contractors, which the drivers have clearly expressed unhappiness over.