Chaotic, Unorganized and Sets You Up to Fail - Product Designer Samsara Employee Review

1.0
Mar 3, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

The people who work there are generally cool. Some people are cliquish and there are tons of twenty-somethings running around saying and doing very college-like things, but other than that they're cool people. Also, the CEO is a sharp guy and really respectable. Overall, it seems upper management, surprisingly enough, actually knows what they're doing and where to focus while also being transparent about what's happening both now and in the future. It's quite amazing, really.

Cons

• Team-specific onboarding was chaos • Back-to-back meetings that take up 5-7 hours of the day • Too high of expectations from employees • Not good at structure and organized process creation • Easy to fall behind unless you're willing to work nights and weekends • Lack of empathy - mistakes are noticed immediately but good work is glossed over • Unrealistic deadlines and turnaround • Too much office politics • Bad management (senior management is fine though) • No work-life balance. You will sleep at work, work the weekend or work at night for sure • Expected to literally do other people's jobs • Everything you say and do is closely watched and judged • High stress, high pressure • Set up to fail via lack of support, clarity, and expectations among other things • Lack of support from managers • EVERYTHING is kept on Dropbox Paper. Everything. • Lots of people-pleasing • Unreasonable performance standards and expectations

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