Sales = Glorified Call center - Anonymous employee Samsara Employee Review

2.0
Jun 8, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company is growing really fast, the product is the best in its industry 200$ Uber/Lyft credits each month Free lunches are good if you like chicken and rice every day.

Cons

Mind-numbingly boring day to day, if you don't like cold calling for hours on end this isn't for you. Micro-management to the max, reps get sent passive aggressive emails for arriving 5 mins late (even on a 6 or 7 AM start time). Mid-management is secretive and reps hardly know about changes until after they're in full production (i.e. raising quotas). Pay isn't competitive at all for SF.

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Samsara Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience. As you know, we are growing very quickly on multiple fronts (new people, new products, new markets), and while we aim to communicate changes in advance when we can, some changes may feel sudden as a result of our growth pace. If you have additional feedback, we’d appreciate it if you shared it with your manager or with People Ops - we’re always looking for ways to improve. Regarding pay and quotas, we continually study market data and design quotas to allow for overachievement to attract and retain the very best sales talent. We are always happy to dive into the details of how this framework has been built, or walk through specifics around your comp plan.

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