Samsara reviews

4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(1,409 total reviews)
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Sanjit Biswas

90% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Samsara has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,409 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Samsara employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
May 31, 2020
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Pros

Is there any good coming from this place? Nothing to say here about pros. Samsara is soul sucking through and through.

Cons

* Crappy managers * Even worse directors * Micromanagement style of management is mind numbing * Product problems make sales churn crazy because of angry customers * System issues for internal process * Call center style sales * Trying to explain “cloud storage” to someone that doesn’t even use email * Apologizing to customers constantly for poor product experience * If you are not from Meraki - don’t count on being promoted * Constant rotation with recycled Yelp AEs that are seriously lacking in sales know-how * Racial diversity is lacking in sales by a large margin * Diversity in management is lacking even more

1.0
Apr 20, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

East to use product. Inspirational CEO. IOT Unicorn.

Cons

Navigating our internal systems is already chaotic. You will find yourself wasting hours of your life just to execute small add-on orders. I have worked at several companies that use Salesforce but I have never experienced anything as crazy as Samsara's version. There is way too much going on and getting constant errors is something you just learn to live with here. In addition to this you have an internal sales enablement team that does very little to provide us with real world training, but they seem to be great at making us learn more tools, record your phone calls, get new logins, get familiar with new portals and then actually demand that we use them all. This isn't making our lives easier as a sales rep! OMG someone needs to tell them to STOP!

2.0
Jul 31, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The people and mostly individual contributors are awesome. The technology is great, honestly the best in the market. Sanjit the CEO is a god like visionary and I think he wouldn’t be pleased if he really knew what was going on with the org. Catered food is awesome, dogs in the office make all the better. You can make some good money here but money is better elsewhere.

Cons

Whether it’s frowned upon PTO, unsupportive managers who don’t get to know their reps at all. Samsara is being run like a boot camp and the morale for the sales team is at an all time low. People fearing for their jobs constantly, even the great ones. Sales directors for the most part claim to be transparent but that is far from the case. No transparency other than board slides. Most teams are underperforming now and there aren’t any inbound leads any further. Just a really toxic place to work now, and they’re only Hiring more. Growing pains of a start up, leadership leads with fear tactics.

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