Overall a good company, but with caveats - Sales Engineer Snowflake Employee Review

3.0
5 May 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Compensation is very good, base + RSUs. Product is transformative and customers overall are happy with it. Company is constantly improving the product and adding new features.

Cons

I feel like the company is undergoing a phase of intense pressure to keep up the image of high growth for the stock market. There is a lot of pressure on the sales side to acquire new customers and to greatly increase consumption on the installed accounts. This pressure is causing a lot of extra work and low tolerance for failure on the sales organization. My onboarding to Snowflake was disjointed and I cycled through a variety of managers over a year's time. The ongoing battle between Snowflake and Databricks can feel like a schoolyard fight at times and can lead to sudden shifts in company priorities.

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5.0
16 June 2026
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Pros

Leadership has great initiatives for the organization

Cons

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1.0
24 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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