Samsara reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(1,410 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 1,410 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
Sep 24, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

C-level is top notch catered food/snacks compensation is good but... (look at cons) more of a younger vibe casual dress code basic benefits/perks overall

Cons

commercial doesnt have any real leadership (new directors are working on it), the managers only have dollar signs in their eyes, were just a number. Not to mention the level of micromanagement is absolutely unreal. Dials and timecards are watched over like a hawk. first of all dont take the job, second if you do be prepared to have a professional babysitter watching over you and not trust you to get the job done. the workload is far too heavy especially considering tossing that in with your daily expectations of 50 prospecting dials + whatever how many dials/demos/calls you have to make to move your pipeline along. The quotas are wayyyy too high especially if you get hired externally, not to mention, MONTHLY QUOTAS. If you dont hit two months in a row at 90%, you get placed on a pip. Most reps use that as a 30 day warning to find a new job. Compensation is good but everytime they raise quotas you lose money because contractually youre either at 45k/45k, 55k/55k, 60k/60k split. Do the math, youll get paid less. Then they expect you to go to mid-market after 12 months when people are getting fired/quitting left and right. A mm rep quit on her way to work in her Uber for goodness sake cause she couldnt stand it.

5.0
Sep 11, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The opportunity to be on the ground floor of one of the fastest, most well-funded SF based tech companies in an emerging tech field (IoT) is just MASSIVE! Best part - we have an office right here in Atlanta that will have 800+ employees in the next few years (currently @ 175)! Typical SaaS sales process (demo, trial, results, proposal), but since hardware is involved, it takes a lot of the "smoke and mirrors" concept selling that is involved in selling Sales Enablement or MarTech tools. The targets in ramp are very low and the average quota attainment is over 180%. If you have sales experience, but especially is you have SaaS sales experience, you owe it to yourself to look into joining the Samsara team.

Cons

You have to prove your worth to keep your seat, but if you are scared of that, I'm not sure why you are in sales in the first place...

5.0
Sep 11, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Earning potential, Growth, Great Product and visionary CEO.

Cons

Typical start-up issues. Samsara is in Hypergrowth and with that processes break but we do a good job of scaling our process with that. Although this can always be improved.

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