Great place for rapid growth with smart and successful team - Engineer Samsara Employee Review

4.0
Apr 11, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- The leadership team has proven that they can lead products to be successful in the market - Meraki, Apple, etc. - you'll get to learn processes and skills that make for a successful company - People are very smart, and offer good ideas and feedback - Things move fast here, and you're given responsibility right out of the gate. You won't feel like "the new guy" for long!

Cons

- Company is having some growing pains around mass-communication - I find that I get three different answers to the same question. - Engineering is very revenue-driven - this is not the place to go if you like to implement a concept from ideation to completion and then send to users.

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Cons

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Pros

Innovative product, constantly growing the platform

Cons

Compensation doesn’t feel competitive for the workload and expectations of the role. Frequent annual changes—including territory realignments, account books, verticalization, and quota adjustments—create unnecessary disruption and make it difficult to build long-term customer relationships and pipeline. The company has grown rapidly, but account distribution hasn’t always kept pace with headcount, leaving many reps competing for limited opportunity and making OTE difficult to achieve consistently. The Team Lead role is one of the biggest pain points. Team Leads are expected to operate like frontline managers without the compensation or authority that comes with a management position. They carry a fully ramped quota while also traveling, mentoring new hires, leading office hours, answering rep questions, supporting onboarding, and taking on enablement responsibilities. While these leadership opportunities can be rewarding, they often come at the expense of selling time and make it significantly harder to hit quota.

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