Stuck in a hamster wheel with no support from leadership - Finance Samsara Employee Review

1.0
Jul 7, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- You meet some awesome people, unfortunately almost all of them leave (turn over rate is much higher than you'd expect at all levels) - benefits were awesome before covid, now there is a small stipend for health and basic tech benefits (health care, dental) - Great at hosting diversity and inclusion events

Cons

- Salary is not competitive with industry average, you are lead to believe the RSU's you are granted help to make up your salary when in reality the math does not add up, and leadership knows it wont be challenged because the promise is that Samsara is the next Workday and stock will triple in the coming years - Company costs are saved by not hiring as aggressively as they should in order to keep up with workload. The longer someone stays at the company the more work they will be given without more than one promotion every 2 years (if that) - Most finance team members CANNOT ever take time off the last week or first week of the month, meaning your PTO is extremely limited. If it is around EOQ you can forgot any PTO for 4 weeks - Senior leaders treat employees as resources, not people. You are also talked over and seen as less by several persons of leadership on the team - There are absolutely no career paths. I've never worked somewhere with such little help for growth especially considering this is one of the top rated places to work - Managers with no knowledge are hired above people who have to train the managers when others should likely have been promoted - I have worked on more than one team while at Samsara and these statements are true for every single team

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Samsara Response
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Thank you for your feedback. Earlier this year, we completed a review of compensation across the whole organization and updated our compensation philosophy. We’ve updated our total compensation target to be in the Top 25% of all hardware and software companies and refreshed our compensation approach to include more ways to reward company and individual performance. We are hoping this will make us attract and retain top talent for the years to come. Leadership development is also a focus area for the people team this year. In addition to the foundational manager training we offer through LifeLabs to all of our managers, we have recently implemented a mandatory 6-month leadership principles training course led by our CEO. We also have all our managers attend inclusion training. Your feedback is important - if you have further ideas on how we can improve in this area, please reach out to a member of our leadership team.

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