Employee for almost 2 years - Finance And Operations Samsara Employee Review

1.0
Sep 6, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good Experience Good founders Good product Good CFO and finance leadership

Cons

Middle to high managements are inexperienced in most functions Lots of good storytellers with bad execution All functions are underpaid /less than the market rate Lots of efforts on fake empathy to excuse bad pay, bad sales culture ...etc

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Samsara Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share about your experience. We think your willingness to share feedback is what helps make Samsara such a great place to learn and grow. It's great to hear that Samsara’s product and executive team are such a positive part of working at Samsara. I want to also address a few areas of concern: Leadership development is a focus area for the people team this year. In addition to the foundational manager training (Manager 101 & Manager 201) we offer through LifeLabs to all of our managers, we have recently implemented a mandatory 6-month Samsara Leadership Principles training course led by our CEO and other senior leaders. We also have all our managers attend inclusion training. We know we can continue to improve, so let us know suggestions of how we can do better through the Samsara Hootline (our anonymous feedback tool). Our current compensation philosophy is to be at the market for companies that are similar to us (size & revenue). The people team is kicking off a project to re-review each job family and function after we finish our compensation cycle. This project will take a few months, but we regularly review data, trends, and best practices to make sure we stay competitive.

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