Sr. Sales Engineer - Senior Sales Engineer Snowflake Employee Review

1.0
Dec 7, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great product. Great Engineering Team and lots of smart technical folks and founders. You will learn a lot. However, be ready to deal with hidden agendas and rampant politics that is totally unusual for a company this size.

Cons

Sales Environment is horrible. Greedy sales team that cannot be trusted. Sales executives and Sales Senior management are after their own self-interest and selfish career goals. They do not care about the people or what happens to them. in Sales they have formed what can be termed as 'the clan'. If you are not part of the clan that comes from the same sales team that previously worked together at an Enterprise company in the Bay Area, you would be part of the black sheep group of the sales family. 'The clan' gets the recognition, promotion and the black sheep group is left behind. You have to be careful with other organizations at Snowflake as well as I am starting to see this phenomenon of not being recognized if you are not on someone's favorite list and lots of politics as the company is growing.

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Pros

Market pay, good benefits, daily breakfast and lunch with great variety.

Cons

The admin teams in the engineering and products orgs have high attrition rates, regular burnout and lack of trust in the admin leadership. The admin leads have created a lot of tension m for years and admins are scared to upset them because of how much influence they have in admins performance reviews. The admin leaders for the product and engineering admins (they don’t manage admins, they manage the program) have been reported to HR and investigated, but nothing happens and they continue to run the admin program poorly. Proceed carefully if you are thinking about an executive assistant or executive operations with them . Not sure how admins in other orgs at Snowflake are doing but they might be doing better because they are not part of admin programs.

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