Avoid the Recruiting Ops Team - Recruiting Samsara Employee Review

1.0
Dec 19, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Extremely smart individual contributors, but the current leaders in recruiting destroy their brilliance. Samsara as a whole is a fine company but the recruiting team is fundamentally broken.

Cons

The ROPs leadership is the most toxic and horrendous that I have ever experienced in my professional career. They are completely unaware, devoid of emotional intelligence, and purely want to do the bare minimum themselves while making all those around them suffer. I would never ever join an organization in the future that they were a part because I would never willingly choose to subject myself to that torture. They have chased people out of the company, created false narratives in order to let people go, and do anything possible to not take accountability for the fact that no one on their team respects or values them as leaders. Run far from this team and do not look back.

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