Sama reviews

3.5

82% would recommend to a friend

(480 total reviews)
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Wendy Gonzalez

71% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Sama has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 480 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sama employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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480 reviews
2.0
Jul 22, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

work-life balance opportunities (gym stipend, yoga in the office, after work sports activities) and office social gatherings

Cons

As mentioned, the mission of the organization is great, but their execution is bad. They didn't have good, thought through processes to execute their work. Focus was very, very heavy on marketing, and not enough on other departments that were working towards actually executing the mission of the organization. When employees are being overworked, it is an obvious sign that you need to hire more people, or work towards reducing the workload to keep happy employees. Also felt like the CEO had a ton of ideas and was starting a lot of different projects, but the company needs to narrow focus to better execute with success. Pay was terrible for my experience and background.

5.0
Apr 12, 2018

Dream job

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-the best coworkers: intelligent, mission-driven, all around wonderful humans -incredible leadership who take a personal interest in your well-being -effective and impactful model: Samasource is changing lives in a sustainable way -org wide commitment to excellence, transparency, and innovation -approach to international development is built on respect and empowerment -autonomy and creative freedom in your role -flexibility to work from home -paid a living wage (which is saying a lot for a nonprofit in SF)

Cons

-constantly shifting priorities -too many hats, which sometimes made it difficult to be successful in specific functions

1.0
Nov 20, 2014

Run away

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Social Cause which great concept

Cons

Terrible CEO Good at MARKETING Good in self promotion only

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