Samsara reviews

Where to even begin. I stayed at Samsara for the bare minimum of 1 year and it was the worst year of my life. The toxic, culture, overall sales cycle process and management made this easily the worst career decision of my life. The best sales people at Samsara are easily the recruiters. They might sell you on the dog friendly office, unlimited PTO or the infamous saying, "the average sales rep is making half a million dollars on their W2". Do NOT believe anything they say. The reality of this place reps will get lucky to get even a lead in their name or a good account to actively work. If you accept this job, you are accepting to be in a bro infested call center with management "partying" during work hours in the office to make the place even sustainable to be in on a daily basis. Many of my co workers had to take leave of absences, sign up for therapy and take several personal PTO days to cope with the overall job in itself. Someone even checked themselves into a hospital at one point! Moral of the story, Samsara is not what is it hyped up to be with a culture and sales floor that will give you crippling anxiety. This place is not for an armature sales rep or even a mediocre sales person.

They keep taking things away. We used to get a decent amount of time for leave, they reduced it. They stopped giving stock to non-engineering employees. There's no longer unlimited PTO. The leadership said their comp is in the 50th percentile.... that's nothing to brag about. It feels like the bigger they get the faster they race to the bottom. It used to be a great place to work pre-pandemic, but the decline in employee experience is rapid and alarming. Leadership will not stop bragging about 1 billion ARR while in the next breath saying we won't get any equity grants this year for non-engineering departments. I wish the job market was better because it feels like a sinking ship as far as benefits and employee experience. Very little room for upward movement, and very stingy with raises (and no COL adjustments).