Perception is not reality - Sales Snowflake Employee Review

3.0
Oct 23, 2019
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Pros

Snowflake has a phenomenal product. The founders were truly revolutionary and built something that is differentiated and leads to great customer outcomes. For the most part, people truly care about the success of customers. The future if bright if they can get past all the turmoil internally. Customers should be excited about where the product is headed but should not get too attached to the sales team they are working with due to the working environment.

Cons

The external perception is that everyone in sales is crushing it but this is far from the truth. Most reps are not making anywhere close to the target yet externally recruiters are putting out numbers that are all world, yet no where near the truth. It is true that attrition is very low as most sales people are hoping for a liquidity event and hanging on for the ride. Massive over hiring has lead to very small territories (1-3 accounts in many cases) and a significant number of reps not making any money yet upper management is still making their quotas due to overallocation. Cronyism is at an all time high with a complete change out of senior management. Everyone is looking over their shoulders to see if they are next to go to make room for their replacement. Culture has really degraded over the past 6 months.

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1.0
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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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