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      Scaling too fast. Internal politics - Manager Snowflake Employee Review

      2.0
      Nov 28, 2018
      Manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great product. Customers love the product and it truly is disrupting Enterprise Data Warehousing. Good CEO with solid intentions and desired company values.

      Cons

      The unicorn status and huge rounds of funding has led to the influx of big company executives and they’re bringing in ‘their people’ — irrespective of role or job suitability. The company has gone from under 200 employees to almost 1,000 in less than 2 years. Tremendous growth and culture scaling challenges ensuing. Good people are suddenly let go while random roles are created and being hired without much process. Managers need training— there is a sub-culture of sarcastic humor, disrespectful toxicity and putting people down in certain groups.

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      Snowflake Response
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      Thank you so much for taking time to provide your constructive feedback and thank you for the contributions you made to helping us grow. We absolutely are growing very fast and will continue to do so, but keeping true to our core values is of utmost importance to us at all times. This is an excellent reminder that we need to remain vigilant and ensure every decision we make and every person we hire is true to the snowflake values. https://www.snowflake.com/about/#our-values I would love to learn more about your concerns and feedback- let me know the best way to connect directly. Kathy O'Driscoll VP of People

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      1.0
      Apr 2, 2026
      Execitive assistant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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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