Was good but getting worse - Software Engineer Snowflake Employee Review

3.0
26 Feb 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Job pays well, you work with very smart ICs. Tech stack is modern and reasonably not spaghetti code.

Cons

Company wants people to move faster and have shorter timelines for projects, without giving more resources or support. Newly implemented 15% “mostly meets expectations (mme)” requirement, and if you get 3 in a row, you’re fired. Sounds quite like stack ranking and PIP. Almost no way to give feedback about your manager, very top down culture. Four holidays were cut unannounced this year, and the new CEO was writing snide comments on slack about how we had too many holidays and needed to work harder. Heard second hand stories of good engineers getting managed out due to disagreement with managers.

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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
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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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