Snowflake Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.3

35% would recommend to a friend

(34 total reviews)
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Sridhar Ramaswamy

40% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Snowflake with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 34 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Snowflake is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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34 reviews
1.0
Dec 31, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Some great coworkers Nice lunches in the office

Cons

Reputation loss on local labour market, caused mainly by political performance review processes and badly performed layoffs earlier 2025. Every CTO visit is literally causing panic in the office, people just afraid further layoffs. They do promote a quick firing culture on the daily basis. You can get fired for whatever reason and your voice is not being heard. PR stats driven culture. HR are not supportive at all, they play against people. The company is unable to attract top talent anymore due to the above. Weak local senior leadership.

1.0
Dec 25, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Decent benefits and pay. - People try their best despite the state of things, so no back-stabbing... yet.

Cons

The new exec team wants to achieve positive cash flow and is willing to sacrifice anything that is not visible on the balance sheet to make this happen. Look up the old blog post titled “The Rocket Behind Snowflake’s Rocket Ship” - all of those ideas have been thrown out the window: - Alignment across all functions? No one has time for that. As a result, sales teams will promise things that do not exist, and eng teams may have no choice but to ship half-finished features. - Quality over deadlines? Quality as a concept no longer exists, see the outage on 12/19/2025 (breaking change on Friday before holiday break? lol...). Deadlines have become a tool to push people into working 60 hours a week. - Bottom-up decision-making or taking initiative? Most decisions are now made by management, as experienced tech leads have already left. Everyone else is pigeonholed into a specific role. - Growing people and career progression? Too expensive, forget about it. And despite all of that the overall growth is slowing down anyway. Join at your own risk.

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