Pre-sales engineer - Pre-Sales Engineer Snowflake Employee Review

3.0
30 July 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great engineering team. The best I have seen. Awesome product and awesome market space and opportunity.

Cons

Sales environment is toxic. No team or comradery spirit. Sales- engineers are the black sheep of the sales family and the sales reps are the ones who are given ultimate control despite the fact that the sales engineers are doing most of the critical work to close any deal given the nature of the service/product offering snowflake is. Commission scheme is geared to favor sales reps more than sales engineers and sales engineers are assigned to two or more sales reps at a time. Sales engineer quota is met only when all sales reps assigned to that sales engineer meet their quota. For example, a sales engineer is assigned to two sales reps and each sales rep is has one million dollar quota. If one of those sales reps meet their one million dollar quota on one deal, they would be already into their accelerator on the remaining deals of the year while the sales engineer would only get into their accelerator when both sales reps assigned to that sales engineer meet their quota (Two million dollar).

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Cons

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Pros

The salary was competitive enough although you will never make your bonus because your patch is so poorly configured.

Cons

I observed the worst cronyism in my 40 year career. New sales manager completely overshot the quota and does zero research on the clients in the territory. This forces her account executive to leave. She continued demanding that the solutions engineering team make the revenue happen when all of the clients in the patch “she carved” were defunct and we’re not going to return the investment at that time or possibly even into the future. Did she own up to it? No she did not. She blamed the solutions engineer who was on federally protected leave. Her crony solutions engineering RVP jumped right in without doing any research or homework because he is her friend and he was also brand new to the job. Training wheels still on yet no humility and mowing people down. Unethical, lack of managerial accountability, and blame culture. HR is equally ridiculous as they just jump on the blame train and don’t do any homework even when the employee was on approved leave and had a great prior quarter before leave began. Yes the company approved the leave, and the managers disrespected the leave even when the employee worked through leave at the bedside of their relative. HR makes the person on leave the target instead of backing up and looking at why the quota was set, why these new inexperienced managers are allowed to torment solutions engineering resources. The answer is cronyism.

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