Scaling too fast. Internal politics - Manager Snowflake Employee Review

2.0
Nov 28, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great product. Customers love the product and it truly is disrupting Enterprise Data Warehousing. Good CEO with solid intentions and desired company values.

Cons

The unicorn status and huge rounds of funding has led to the influx of big company executives and they’re bringing in ‘their people’ — irrespective of role or job suitability. The company has gone from under 200 employees to almost 1,000 in less than 2 years. Tremendous growth and culture scaling challenges ensuing. Good people are suddenly let go while random roles are created and being hired without much process. Managers need training— there is a sub-culture of sarcastic humor, disrespectful toxicity and putting people down in certain groups.

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Snowflake Response
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Thank you so much for taking time to provide your constructive feedback and thank you for the contributions you made to helping us grow. We absolutely are growing very fast and will continue to do so, but keeping true to our core values is of utmost importance to us at all times. This is an excellent reminder that we need to remain vigilant and ensure every decision we make and every person we hire is true to the snowflake values. https://www.snowflake.com/about/#our-values I would love to learn more about your concerns and feedback- let me know the best way to connect directly. Kathy O'Driscoll VP of People

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