Poor leadership and toxic optics driven culture - Product Manager Snowflake Employee Review

1.0
31 Oct 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Smart, passionate people doing impressive technical work despite constant leadership churn. Compensation and benefits are strong, and the technology has real potential.

Cons

I joined with high hopes, but quickly saw that optics mattered far more than actual impact. Collaboration was undermined by blame culture and scapegoating when things went wrong. Leadership focuses on looking good upward rather than building trust or supporting their teams. Feedback loops are inconsistent, expectations shift weekly, and performance reviews feel political. Talented people leave, burn out, or fired in a few weeks. Really strong people just leave. Proceed with caution — this is not a psychologically safe environment.

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1.0
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Pros

The salary was competitive enough although you will never make your bonus because your patch is so poorly configured.

Cons

I observed the worst cronyism in my 40 year career. New sales manager completely overshot the quota and does zero research on the clients in the territory. This forces her account executive to leave. She continued demanding that the solutions engineering team make the revenue happen when all of the clients in the patch “she carved” were defunct and we’re not going to return the investment at that time or possibly even into the future. Did she own up to it? No she did not. She blamed the solutions engineer who was on federally protected leave. Her crony solutions engineering RVP jumped right in without doing any research or homework because he is her friend and he was also brand new to the job. Training wheels still on yet no humility and mowing people down. Unethical, lack of managerial accountability, and blame culture. HR is equally ridiculous as they just jump on the blame train and don’t do any homework even when the employee was on approved leave and had a great prior quarter before leave began. Yes the company approved the leave, and the managers disrespected the leave even when the employee worked through leave at the bedside of their relative. HR makes the person on leave the target instead of backing up and looking at why the quota was set, why these new inexperienced managers are allowed to torment solutions engineering resources. The answer is cronyism.

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