Sales? PLEASE listen and do not work here - Mid Market Account Executive Samsara Employee Review

This environment is not for the weak and honestly, it is not even for the strong. Your first few months at Samsara, you will be a data dog. You get a dump of accounts to work which have been churned and burned by every single rep before you. You are then left to fend for yourself and cold call until your soul dies. You better remember everything you learned at orientation about this complex product because you will literally get zero help figuring it all out as you make it through your first few months here. Either figure it out on your own which is near impossible or annoy your co-workers with questions every couple of minutes in order to make it through your first few demos and conversations. If you survive your first few quarters here - congrats! But now your mental health has probably declined so far that no amount of money could get you to stay. Every rep is so scared to get fired since the environment is so cutthroat. If you miss one quarter? You're gone. If you get lucky enough to make it to the end of a sales cycle with one of your deals, the processes are cumbersome and require so much busywork that you almost want to give up towards the end. It takes about 8 steps internally to get a deal closed and about 5 levels of "leadership approval" for everything you do in salesforce. This delays deals and causes them to die a lot of the time because the process takes too long for your prospect to be happy with. The industry: you are selling to truckers. They are unprofessional, inappropriate and sometimes just downright rude to you. You are just a number to these people and they can care less if you quit or if they fire you. Save yourself the time, career mistake and mental health deterioration and do not come to Samsara for a sales role!!!! Do not listen to the recruiters, they make it sound like everyone is closing deals left and right and it is the easiest job ever. The only reps closing deals are the reps who have been here for 2+ deals and get consistent upsells from current customers. I have never written a company review in my life but feel I was doing Glassdoor a disservice by not writing about my experience.