Rampant favoritism and lip service to diversity - Anonymous employee Samsara Employee Review

2.0
Feb 26, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Opportunity to do high impact work

Cons

- Favoritism is the name of the game at Samsara, if you look like people at the top and are liked by them you can get ahead - Lip service to diversity, in the time I was there the excuse of "talent pipeline" was always the reason for subpar representation across everything - Boys club culture all around, sexist in some instances I know everyone keeps pointing to the layoffs as the turning point in Samsara's sh1tty culture, but the issues were there all along. People were just too enamored by free lunches and busy drinking the koolaid to see it. Beware of the positive reviews, I would bet anything they're coming from the people that benefit from the very culture that rewards the fratty clique-y attitude.

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