Disfunctional Leadership Team - Sales Engineering Manager Snowflake Employee Review

1.0
Jan 29, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Industry defining product. And Slootman is a great visionary leader. However, he has a lot of work to do as the legacy leadership is not fully bought into his vision (by action) of what a great company should be.

Cons

Leadership below CEO is dysfunctional, especially the SE leadership team. Its more of a who you know versus what you know. They also react to what sales leadership wants instead of trying to find equal partnership.

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5.0
Jun 24, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great work life balance, great leadership, fantastic tech, and strong earnings opportunities

Cons

Can’t think of any at this time - best company I’ve worked for

1.0
Jun 24, 2026
Recommend
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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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