If you're reading this because you were thinking of applying, DON'T. - Corporate Account Executive Snowflake Employee Review

1.0
20 Apr 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Product is very well proven and customer satisfaction is high.

Cons

Management are all hand picked for one reason, and that's being insecure bullies. At the start of fiscal, they restructured the role to be purely outbound, took away all existing accounts minus 4 underperforming accounts for each rep. The quotas still went up, despite most of our growth coming from existing business. Territories that had one rep, now have 3 fighting over any new company that pops up from funding rounds or otherwise. There is a gate for deal size that you actually get paid on - $25k or higher, and the average deal size for a new logo is around $15-18k. Meaning that half the deals you close, you will not make a single dollar on, and for a publicly traded company, this should be illegal. Ops is nonexistent, and data quality for a company that brags about centralizing data, is beyond ironic. Management's leadership style is to hammer you about kpi's, treat you like unqualified scum who don't have any idea what they're doing, and will not realize the irony in never giving any support or ever taking the time to show any new hire the ropes. No, that onus is placed on senior reps, who are making less in base than external hires they're forced to train because your manager "is too busy" - taking calls in territories without a rep instead of feeding their team, and openly telling you it's because it's better for the company since they don't have to pay out a sales commission. But these are the people who want you to add them to calls and listen to their guidance without question, even though they have no idea how to sell and are the equivalent of a used-car salesman when you do bring them on. Managers never follow up on anything that they're supposed to do, schedule more internal meetings now that the company is tanking, and use analogies such as climbing mount Everest as a comparison of us reaching our quota.... You don't get an SDR, you will be required to spend hours a week on non-revenue generating activities, and God forbid you have an actual question about a process or unique situation that you haven't ran into, because you will get reamed out for not knowing.

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5.0
16 June 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
24 June 2026
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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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