Samsara will chew you up and spit you out! - Account Executive Samsara Employee Review

1.0
Apr 17, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

No pros. You could say that the food is a pro but it is seriously unhealthy. Chips and Rockstar drinks. An easy walk to work since you're not in a busy district of SF.

Cons

Believe the reviews and check out the Most Recent ones. This place is a real toilet of a company. Seriously this was the WORST company I have worked for ever. Several reviews talk about the all in one approach and style to leading people and it is true. There is one recipe for all representatives on how one on ones are done, activities to be done, selling approach, same considerations for time off regardless of performance..The environment is truly a boiler room with new managers that have low to no emotional intelligence. First time managers moved to director roles equals what you can imagine. Immature "leaders" that are in a lot of need of leadership training and development. Micromanagement from a few leaders seems to be the ideal action and flavor of the day, month, quarter. Sales numbers are being missed more than ever. Instead of reviewing this with strategy and tactful changes, the answer has been to MICROMANAGE MANIACALLY. Dashboard obsession and supposed coaching to the dashboard daily. There is a manager that literally could not deliver feedback without being mean and DEMORALIZING [also in another review] and horrible changes to the department are apparent when power is given to people that should not be in power. Numerous mangers and above need massive amounts of leadership training. Motivation does not come from metrics management day in and day out. Prepare to be treated as a child, a very incompetent child. I have not missed quota yet. I know that the hammer will come slamming down with more micromanagement if I ever do. You can't help but laugh at being such a fool for joining this company. Honestly it stinks because even the sales people learn bad habits because of the sales motion here. Discount, discount, discount, pressure blue-collar buyers, sell on trial. Many sales reps. that came on board with little or no experience in the past leave with some bad sales habits which isn't their fault fully but is a result of this horrible churn factory. This isn't a tech sell, this is more like B2C retail selling. Even COVID-19 procedures were disorganized. Profits over people, profits over healthy company culture, profits over using strategy to run the company. It's a circus daily. Tool rollout constantly is disorganized and current tools like check out systems are always breaking or freezing. Terrible company, terrible middle managers and promoted middle managers, great peers in the grunt with you. People are searching for jobs right now and trying to leave, even in this tough job environment with shelter in place.

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Cons

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Cons

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