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      Samsara

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      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

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.7

      Senior management

      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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      1K reviews
      2.0
      Nov 11, 2020

      Decent place to work, but overhyped

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Interesting technology/hard problems Healthy and profitable business Growth opportunities if you're willing to hustle and market yourself

      Cons

      Declining growth opportunities/slower moving as the company gets bigger Declining employee happiness/engagement A lot of aggressive deadlines and burnout is common - everyone is always heads down working all the time (even pre COVID) Need to start managing politics/image if you want to grow your career Employees viewed as replaceable - just extra bodies to hit deadlines

      2.0
      Oct 5, 2020

      Welcome to the Machine

      Senior account executive
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great CEO who has been successful before.

      Cons

      Terrible team environment. Little to no coaching from managers. Awful work life balance. 30% of sales team is on a performance plan due to very strict performance expectations with little to no coaching once on plan.

      2.0
      Oct 4, 2020

      OK for recent grads, not great for mid-career engineers

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - C-suite is humble, smart, and cares about the company - Most of management is well intentioned. - People are friendly and help each other out. - Core business is on solid footing. - Samsara's engineering team has a large number of recent college grads. This means is that if you're a recent grad, you can be handed a lot of responsibility here much faster than if you were at another similarly sized company.

      Cons

      - Nobody has ever been promoted to staff engineer. We have staff engineers, but they're mostly people who joined the company long before engineering levels existed, plus one or two people hired at that level. Senior SWEs who do outstanding, high-impact work get a pat on the back (we've gotten rid of raises). - Directors and VPs have a heavy hand in evaluating perf for people they don't interact with. This means that the people who advertise their work the most do the best. Most of engineering has figured this out, so there's constant self-promotion. - Management is not receptive to feedback. We used to give upward feedback quarterly and receive downward feedback semiannually, now we give upward feedback semiannually and receive downward feedback quarterly. - The layoffs were bad for morale, and there hasn't been any effort to repair the damage. - A lot of talent is leaving for better pay.

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      Samsara Response
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      Thank you for taking the time to share about your experience. We think your willingness to share feedback is what helps make Samsara such a great place to learn and grow. It's great to hear that Samsara’s people and management team are such a positive part of working at Samsara. I want to address a few of your concerns: Performance feedback - We recently instituted an updated performance review process to ensure all performance and promotions are assessed in a calibrated way and take into consideration the perspectives of various individuals across a range of levels. We are hoping this improves the quality of the performance feedback and fairness throughout the process. We would like to hear your feedback on if this was an improvement over previous cycles. Compensation - As you might have heard by now, we have launched our Comp 2.0 project to refresh our philosophy for our size and stage. In addition, we are moving back to our standard cash raises for our next cycle now that we’ve had some time to understand how COVID will impact our business.
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