...Ehh, you may love it if you're an engineer - Sales Snowflake Employee Review

3.0
Feb 27, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

The product is amazing without a doubt. Going to be a lot of money for people after IPO The company is full of energetic and motivated people (mostly) There is actually an office culture that's not too corny, and filled with young people Lunch everyday Tons of enablement material

Cons

With a company growing at unnatural levels like Snowflake is, it takes leadership who knows how to lead talented employees without needing to leverage the hype around this company. The culture has become way more toxic than it was just a couple of years ago. High expectations with only so much to work with, and if you feel like an outcast if you don't drink the kool-aid. Though, this is typical for majority of Silicon Valley companies. The company has clearly been doing amazing sales-wise. Before, it was basically like printing money for the number of reps available. With the team growing larger every quarter and territories getting tighter, management needs to actually MANAGE now **shivers**. Also, compensation was not what I expected at all (very low). I would advise you to look past the hype of this company. Interview and get a feel for it, but understand that there are plenty of startups just as good as Snowflake...and paying better money as well.

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Cons

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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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