Sr. Sales Engineer - Senior Sales Engineer Snowflake Employee Review

1.0
Dec 7, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great product. Great Engineering Team and lots of smart technical folks and founders. You will learn a lot. However, be ready to deal with hidden agendas and rampant politics that is totally unusual for a company this size.

Cons

Sales Environment is horrible. Greedy sales team that cannot be trusted. Sales executives and Sales Senior management are after their own self-interest and selfish career goals. They do not care about the people or what happens to them. in Sales they have formed what can be termed as 'the clan'. If you are not part of the clan that comes from the same sales team that previously worked together at an Enterprise company in the Bay Area, you would be part of the black sheep group of the sales family. 'The clan' gets the recognition, promotion and the black sheep group is left behind. You have to be careful with other organizations at Snowflake as well as I am starting to see this phenomenon of not being recognized if you are not on someone's favorite list and lots of politics as the company is growing.

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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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