Underpaid and unforgiving sales culture. - Sales Snowflake Employee Review

2.0
Jun 18, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You will be selling an excellent product at a fast-growing company and there is also a lot of great senior leadership at the C level.

Cons

Snowflake has a cutthroat sales culture that is very difficult to survive in. There are a lot of salespeople and your success will largely depend on the account list you inherit. The golden age to join Snowflake was between 2016 and 2019. It gets more and more difficult to get promoted now and you most likely will be working for someone who succeeded in a much bigger territory with a much easier number to hit. In some cases, some of the leadership doesn't have a damn clue how to sell Snowflake. Nowadays most reps come closer to 50% of quota AT BEST through upselling existing customers that they were lucky enough to inherit. The reality is that you will not be getting paid enough to assume the amount of stress you will take on to hit your number at Snowflake.

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1.0
Apr 2, 2026
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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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