Samsara reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(1,411 total reviews)
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Sanjit Biswas

90% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Samsara has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,411 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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2.0
Dec 29, 2018

Not a lot of growth opportunities

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Pros

Great benefits, humble executives who know what they’re doing, mostly friendly people, extremely fast growth.

Cons

Seems they don’t like to hire internally for positions. Hard to move up and hard to switch teams. Some of the management have high egos and belittle people below them. Will work well for you if you’re careful about what you say and know how to climb the corporate latter/ deal with corporate bs. This may mean knocking people out of your way to get there.

2.0
Jun 8, 2018

Sales = Glorified Call center

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Pros

Company is growing really fast, the product is the best in its industry 200$ Uber/Lyft credits each month Free lunches are good if you like chicken and rice every day.

Cons

Mind-numbingly boring day to day, if you don't like cold calling for hours on end this isn't for you. Micro-management to the max, reps get sent passive aggressive emails for arriving 5 mins late (even on a 6 or 7 AM start time). Mid-management is secretive and reps hardly know about changes until after they're in full production (i.e. raising quotas). Pay isn't competitive at all for SF.

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Samsara Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience. As you know, we are growing very quickly on multiple fronts (new people, new products, new markets), and while we aim to communicate changes in advance when we can, some changes may feel sudden as a result of our growth pace. If you have additional feedback, we’d appreciate it if you shared it with your manager or with People Ops - we’re always looking for ways to improve. Regarding pay and quotas, we continually study market data and design quotas to allow for overachievement to attract and retain the very best sales talent. We are always happy to dive into the details of how this framework has been built, or walk through specifics around your comp plan.
2.0
Sep 14, 2025

No career growth, "yes" culture

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Pros

Great benefits and competitive pay. For some workers, that's all they could ask for. But if you want longevity, PLEASE BE WARNED

Cons

It was great until a year ago. Heavily focused on a.i. and with that comes higher expectations and faster/more demand. Not a great place to work if you have any of these values within your top 5: 1. Mental health 2. Honesty, from managment & peers 3. Commradery 4. Team work 5. Integrity for yourself Burn out culture is real. if you speak up about management, bullying, intimidation, or their favorites, you'll quickly be cut from advancement. Maybe threatened with termination. You need to keep your head and hopes down in order to do your job and keep it. Say 'yes' and leave all your professional skills and reccomendations out the door. They don't want it. I've seen it from many parts of the business. I know talent whose had to leave because of it. They don't want talent or want to keep it. They want 'yes'. The ones who care are all gone.

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