If you are a kind and thoughtful human being, run the other way - Recruiter Samsara Employee Review

1.0
Mar 5, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Smartest colleagues and team members - Great benefits - Remote first flexibility

Cons

- Recruiting strategy: they only care about butts in seats but not strategy like A/B testing, carefully crafting InMail responses, recruiter development, DEI. They will say things like they care about diversity but if you have a role open for more than a month, the hammer comes down to just hit your numbers. - Headcount planning: foreign concept at this company. One day you don’t have reqs and think you are going to be laid off, the next you are drowning. - Leadership: the recruiting leadership here is awful. If you want a human leadership team who prioritizes people first, job second, run the other way. It starts with the top down whose only frame of reference is working at Amazon. If you want to grow your career but don’t speak numbers and are not a robot, you’ll get passed up for opportunities. The org only optimizes for speed and does not care about the people in their recruiting organization. Constantly puts people down and creates a toxic work environment. Recently launched a culture handbook that doubles down on a hustle culture. Once opportunities open up, I guarantee half the recruiting organization will no longer be here. People are only here because it’s a terrible market for recruiting and people are stuck.

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Samsara Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and supported—while we have made great strides in this area, we know there is more work to be done. One of our top priorities is to build an inclusive workplace culture by attracting, retaining, and developing diverse talent at all levels. We move fast and appreciate your feedback regarding pace, strategy, and development. This year, one of the Recruiting OKRs is to create scalable programs that offer new development opportunities and skill up-leveling. If you have any ideas of what we can do to improve in these areas, we ask you to reach out to your People Partner or use the Reporting and Feedback Hotline.

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