The most toxic Marketing team in the industry - Marketing Manager Snowflake Employee Review

1.0
May 12, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive salary, good benefits and nice office Strong brand reputation, looks good on CV

Cons

The most toxic workplace I have ever been in, especially in the Marketing team. From the top down, the entire Marketing organization operates on the principle of being part of the 'inner circle' and how likeable you are to the few in the 'leadership' team who make the decisions on who gets promoted and who gets a raise. There are no targets, no KPIs, no accountability, no career progression discussions, it's all about being 'in' or not. People with very little to no experience (apart from the experience gained at Snowflake - which really amounts to nothing) are the ones who get promoted time and time again, as they have been there since before the IPO and have brown nosed the leadership team. The team is huge and most people fiddle their thumbs while some execute the only thing they know how to do: events. The 'strategic' or 'planning' sessions are at best mediocre, a waste of time, where leadership asks individual contributors for their opinion on how to support sales, only to end up doing the same thing: branded cupcakes, the tired mascot and of course, events. Marketing mediocrity aside, the worst of it is the toxicity in the workplace; people are treated with disrespect, belittled and actively discouraged from applying for roles that would grant them an internal promotion. People are often marginalised during 'team building' events or get togethers, where only the members of the cliques have access to leadership visibility. HR bury their heads in the sand and they never take any action to look into concerns brought forward around bullying, people struggling with anxiety, toxicity in the workplace.

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5.0
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Pros

Leadership has great initiatives for the organization

Cons

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1.0
Jun 24, 2026
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Pros

The salary was competitive enough although you will never make your bonus because your patch is so poorly configured.

Cons

I observed the worst cronyism in my 40 year career. New sales manager completely overshot the quota and does zero research on the clients in the territory. This forces her account executive to leave. She continued demanding that the solutions engineering team make the revenue happen when all of the clients in the patch “she carved” were defunct and we’re not going to return the investment at that time or possibly even into the future. Did she own up to it? No she did not. She blamed the solutions engineer who was on federally protected leave. Her crony solutions engineering RVP jumped right in without doing any research or homework because he is her friend and he was also brand new to the job. Training wheels still on yet no humility and mowing people down. Unethical, lack of managerial accountability, and blame culture. HR is equally ridiculous as they just jump on the blame train and don’t do any homework even when the employee was on approved leave and had a great prior quarter before leave began. Yes the company approved the leave, and the managers disrespected the leave even when the employee worked through leave at the bedside of their relative. HR makes the person on leave the target instead of backing up and looking at why the quota was set, why these new inexperienced managers are allowed to torment solutions engineering resources. The answer is cronyism.

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