Best Decision Ever! - Mid Market Account Executive Samsara Employee Review

5.0
Sep 11, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The opportunity to be on the ground floor of one of the fastest, most well-funded SF based tech companies in an emerging tech field (IoT) is just MASSIVE! Best part - we have an office right here in Atlanta that will have 800+ employees in the next few years (currently @ 175)! Typical SaaS sales process (demo, trial, results, proposal), but since hardware is involved, it takes a lot of the "smoke and mirrors" concept selling that is involved in selling Sales Enablement or MarTech tools. The targets in ramp are very low and the average quota attainment is over 180%. If you have sales experience, but especially is you have SaaS sales experience, you owe it to yourself to look into joining the Samsara team.

Cons

You have to prove your worth to keep your seat, but if you are scared of that, I'm not sure why you are in sales in the first place...

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Cons

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