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
Jun 28, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

+good company name to put on your resume

Cons

+they hire at a rapid rate which means they fire at a rapid rate. Hire at least 4 new people a month in the ADR roll. Turnover rate is HIGH. +expectations are not clear from the beginning, they encourage you to get numbers but don’t tell you what happens when you don’t +you can only miss sales goals twice and then they will try to get you to resign so they don’t have to pay unemployment +there is no probationary period for you to actually learn how to do things. They just talk at you in training. +there are too many uncontrollables when it comes to leads which you will be punished for when sales goals are not met even when things are out of your hands. +this is a numbers company, that is all they care about. They hire too many people to have time to develop any kind of relationships with their employees. +manager is too busy hiring and interviewing people to have time to tend to the current teams needs. +they encourage you take off work but you will miss your sales goals if you do. Do not take off no matter what. + I had COVID for the second time and took off work (which they encouraged) didn’t meet my sales goal as a result and had to be written up even though they told me to take off

2.0
Aug 25, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Can be fun to work there if you're not an account executive Decent perks, food, health, commuter, 401k etc

Cons

You'll work yourself to the bone and see little reward for the amount of effort you put in Definitely good ol boy network up at the top. You have to know people or be really liked to get any type of promotion. Can feel disorganized

2.0
Apr 7, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Smart tech (although open to some infringement claims right now) - Hard-working people - A mature product that sells well in marketplace. Stock price will likely continue to rise. - Solid office in SF. - Some teams still working on new and interesting product lines, e.g. ML. - Established name in tech, so helpful on resume for future roles. - Chance to work at large customer scale.

Cons

- Inexperienced people in wrong places making bad decisions. - Serious accumulation of tech debt. - In "sales stage" of Silicon Valley lifecycle, really trying to push up revenue and focus on sales instead of engineering innovation. - Poor culture of accountability, leaders get poor visibility into problems and problems get pushed onto the engineers. - Bad engineering attrition, leaving new engineers to figure out what's what with little support. - Sub-par documentation, really hurts new engineer onboarding. - Office was pretty dead. - On-call culture (depending on team) was flat-out miserable.

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