Pros
Lunch, snacks, you will work alongside top talent and mostly down to earth, hard working people.
Cons
Where to begin.... Sales, especially Commercial Sales, is a sad excuse for a "Sales," team. The Commercial Sales team is simply miserable. Samsara likes to boost that they only hire top talent (1%), yet with the way their CML segment is ran, jr. and green sales reps could be account executives. Management does not like to admit it, but making your monthly quota is 100% based upon a poorly executed round robin system. It is not based upon talent, past experience, or ability. it's LUCK, pure LUCK. Aside from being expected to sit at your desk all day to hopefully get a (good) transfer, you are expected to cold call a minimum of 50 accounts per day. Cold calling in sales, sure, but the accounts we are given to call into are often no longer is business, have incorrect phone numbers, and are missing contacts and/or business information. Our growth team is focused on the quantity of accounts, NOT the quality. This leaves the CML sales team relying on the RANDOM, ROUND ROBIN transfer. You will not grow or sharpen your sales skills with this type of set-up. I encourage you to look elsewhere. CML reps have no faith in their upper management. Promotions and VP/Director placements are based upon politics. If you were previously employed by the CEO's first company, Cisco Meraki, great you're safe, and if not best of luck to you! Samsara hires your replacement BEFORE you even leave. CML reps are fired every week. Even ones who started with the company as an ADR. There is no loyalty or job security. If you want to walk around with your head down everyday hoping that you don't get fired, this is the place for you. *fun fact: you often don't find out what your quota is until the month has already started. for example we found out August's quota on August 8th. How is a sales persons suppose to plan and forecast?