Sales - Anonymous employee Samsara Employee Review

3.0
Jun 17, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good product market fit Free lunch + Uber credits Exciting times at the company

Cons

Treated like kids, hard to take time off on vacation or even away from your desk High pressure monthly quotas with boring day to day (not many leads coming through), feel like a number Call center job in dungeon office (other job functions are in nicer brand new office couple blocks away)

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Samsara Response
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We’re sorry to hear that your experience at Samsara hasn’t been as positive as we’d hope for, but we do appreciate the candid feedback. We are making changes to the physical environment at our De Haro location in response to the substantial growth we’ve experienced there (reducing desk density, adding more soft seating, piloting noise-canceling headsets, etc.) based on feedback from our most recent employee survey. We’d love to chat with you about the other areas that you mentioned - please reach out to your manager or to People Ops.

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