Leadership leaves a lot to be desired - Anonymous employee Snowflake Employee Review

2.0
6 Dec 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

In the beginning the hype makes you very excited to be there but that quickly wears off.

Cons

I can only speak for the sales ops department. I worked as an analyst and found that leaderships was incredibly inexperienced and created a very toxic work culture. There is no room for growth, improvement or to learn new things. They are constantly re-organizing the department and assigning new roles and duties while expecting you to be okay with being pigeonholed and having a job that is vastly different from the one you signed up for. The work is EXTREMELY repetitive because there are bottlenecks everywhere when it comes to automating or creating systems and processes. People are more concerned with keeping their job and not getting on leaderships bad side (which is understandable). All in all, if you can bear the inefficiency, repetitiveness, circling back on the same problem or issue for months and months at a time with no real resolution, watching really good ideas get shot down because of who they came from and dealing with incompetent leadership than give it a shot. Otherwise, interview with another department. SalesOps is not the only one looking for analysts.

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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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