Good pay but gruelling culture and death by review - Product Manager Snowflake Employee Review

3.0
17 Apr 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- A LOT depends on which org/team you end up in and who your manager will be - experience may vary. - Expect to work with smart people and collaborate a lot. - Top of the market pay (p90+) and benefits will motivate you for a while. - Positive market outlook.

Cons

- A lot of senseless red tape and approvals to go through, some of them (UX reviews) will contradict the goals of your org. Expect things to take a while before they're shipped. - Little to no career growth. You will be given promises but don't base your plans on that. Watch the level - here it matters because upwards mobility is nearly absent except juniors. - Quarterly performance reviews keep people on their toes. Incentives of different functions are misaligned and you might face situations where engineers refuse to design a high priority project and instead work on a low priority one because they need to hit a PR count goal (yes, that affects the rating).

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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
Business outlook

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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