This is the worst company I've ever worked at - Senior Software Engineer I Samsara Employee Review

1.0
Jul 15, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- CEO seems competent - Not much else

Cons

Waited a few months before posting this so I wouldn't be easily identified - Pay is bad, it's maybe 80% of what you would get elsewhere at non-FANG companies - Tons of micromanagement from managers that really shouldn't have been managers - A ridiculous amount of nepotism. Unless you're drinking buddies or old friends with management and the executive team this will probably be the worst place you'll ever work at. Promotions are given based on how much you're liked and how much you advertise your work (no matter how small) rather than how capable you are. - A ton of Senior Engineers that would be entry level at any other company; the technical decisions some of these engineers make are so bad that I wonder if I'm getting dumber having to constantly course correct their projects. I should be able to trust my peers to do their jobs well. - Management uses PIPs as a scare tactic. I've seen good engineers get PIPed for not being a "team player" or for some other unknown criteria because they spoke to a coworker about not being happy - I've heard of people being retaliated against for wanting to switch teams - CTO is MIA - The technical stack isn't complicated. The complexity is the massive amount of tech debt and bad code design.

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Cons

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Cons

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