Recruiters were trained to lie - Recruiter Samsara Employee Review

1.0
Nov 20, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-CEO is great -fast growing company

Cons

-recruiters at samsara are on quota's and rarely ever hit their numbers -additionally there was never training to update information or talk tralks for when Samsara moved into a more mature start up so they would share facts/information that was true to Samsara when the company was series A/B size -burn and turn environment similar to Samsara's sales team is also true to recruiting -very political, if recruiting leadership does not personally like you (even if you are performing) you will be pushed out and fired - this happened a handful of times creating a constant fear of job stability -recruiting teams are extremely micromanaged by all managers -hiring managers never gave recruiters the time of day and were not respected in the slightest -recruiting leadership is extremely exclusive and cliquey

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Samsara Response
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Thank you for taking time to write a review. I am sorry your experience at Samsara was not a positive one. I wanted to address a few of your concerns: Quotas & Partnership - Recruiters at Samsara are no longer on quotas since February 2020. When we were on quotas, we expected that minimum 80% of our team would be meeting or exceeding performance expectations, which was consistently true. We now set goals for our recruiters that are balanced between the number of hires, increasing diversity, and improving talent partnership with hiring managers to best support the needs of the business. We expect hiring managers to help drive hiring as much as our recruiters do. Pitching Samsara - Samsara is a rapidly growing company with an employee and candidate experience that is evolving as we navigate this fast growth. Our recruiters and hiring teams are pitching a different Samsara now than what they were pitching a year ago. We expect the experience to evolve as the company evolves and goes through various stages. We also expect our recruiters and hiring teams to understand changes so they are providing accurate information to our candidates. Leadership - Our Recruiting leadership team (myself included) strives to make sure that performance feedback is fair and consistent. We recently implemented updates to the company-wide performance review process that improve the quality of the performance feedback and fairness throughout the process through cross-team calibration.

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