Snowflake reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(1,061 total reviews)
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Sridhar Ramaswamy

71% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Snowflake has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,061 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Snowflake employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Oct 15, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The product market fit is amazing. SDRs and AEs are pretty great, for the most part. There is one good SDR manager in San Mateo, another in Atlanta. Office is nice and the RTO is not too strongly enforced, for now, at least

Cons

This org has gone downhill so fast in the past 6 months. The misalignment with our Enterprise and Majors accounts incentive (paid out on only booking meetings, regardless of where AEs are in their pipeline, makes zero sense and needs to be changed. The same comp plan for years is ridiculous). Misalignment with the CAE leaders. SDRs are being told they are entering the CAE interview process (Snowbound) with only days to prepare and they are expected to do so with smiles on their faces. Then, the CAE hiring managers are holding it against them that they did not reach out months before to introduce themselves. SDR "leaders" are concerned with self promotion - writing books, promoting the podcast episodes they're not, touring offices with "fireside chats" pretty much anything about themselves besides actually leading. They could help these SDRs by investing in them as people and professionals, but instead they stay locked away in their castle, treating SDRs as disposable. I have never met people with more ego and hubris. As the SDR business unit aligns closer with Marketing  and becomes a more programmatic motion with marketing writing our emails and required activity that isn't always the best for our territory or accounts, SDRs are deprived of learning the messaging and pipeline planning skills necessary to become good at sales, so it makes sense they're not interviewing as well. But hey if it helps pad a sales ops directors' career, why not? SDRs should keep your head down and make calls. Even if they calls don't even add value. It's not like directors have the slightest idea what is best for enterprise/majors accounts---it is the best way to get an SDR director to start talking about you. It is pointless and adds no business value to suck up to these vapid people. SDR managers and directors act like they know everything about sales even though they were an AE for 9 months before becoming an SDR "leader".  The emphasis on what people "hear" about SDRs is more important than our actual deliverables. SDRs are encouraged to be spending time with directors so they will advocate for their promotions, even if they aren't even pacing to quota. They are moved to be allowed to interview. This is not a performance driven organization, the directors have created a toxic, gossip focused org. Rather than actually helping their employees, using their emotional intelligence to work with CAE VPs, SDR "leaders" act like it is all about them. They judge SDRs. Quick hire to fire motion. I have heard one SDR director actually speak about an SDR who literally LOOKED at her the wrong way.

3.0
Feb 26, 2025

Was good but getting worse

Recommend
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Pros

Job pays well, you work with very smart ICs. Tech stack is modern and reasonably not spaghetti code.

Cons

Company wants people to move faster and have shorter timelines for projects, without giving more resources or support. Newly implemented 15% “mostly meets expectations (mme)” requirement, and if you get 3 in a row, you’re fired. Sounds quite like stack ranking and PIP. Almost no way to give feedback about your manager, very top down culture. Four holidays were cut unannounced this year, and the new CEO was writing snide comments on slack about how we had too many holidays and needed to work harder. Heard second hand stories of good engineers getting managed out due to disagreement with managers.

1.0
Oct 24, 2024

Career Suicide

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Pros

To aspiring sales professionals wanting to start their tech sales careers at Snowflake, I would recommend to avoid this company like the plague. They treat their SDRs like disposable garbage. The "new" SDR Director E.S. based in San Mateo is ruthless, heartless & calculated (despite her initial impression). She just “laid off” all the Bellevue SDRs/managers because she wanted to be closer to everyone to manage (no severance). There's a chance she'll do the same in other offices. She will lie to you, and she will make you believe she is looking out for you. All tenured SDR management have been fired/quit after hiring that SDR Director. Promotions are nonexistent from SDR to an inside seller/AE role despite what leadership tells you (especially in Bellevue/San Mateo). The VP of CAE L.Y. dislikes SDRs & has pushed CAE management to recruit sellers externally rather than internally promote, which has stalled SDR promos. SDRs stay for +2 years hoping they will get promoted only to learn L.Y. isn’t interested in interviewing SDR candidates. There are so many Snowflake competitors that pay SDRs 2x Snow’s salary, give them much more respect, and provide more opportunities to grow their careers. Do your long term career a favor, and don’t waste your time at Snowflake.

Cons

Cons - No career growth opportunities - Hire to fire boiler room sales culture - Poor SDR leadership

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