Snowflake Sales Engineering Review - Sales Engineer Snowflake Employee Review

3.0
21 Sept 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Innovative. Smart people. Product leadership is fantastic. Lots of new features pushed out on a regular basis.

Cons

Worst tech leadership in the business. They're not leaders, they're bosses. Highly condescending, abusive, and unqualified technical leadership. Micromanaged via Vivun. Never experienced the level of micromanagement as seen here. Tech leadership expects you to know every use case at any moment for all of your customers. Checking notes is a sign of weakness and you will be berated if you refer to notes. Having over 13 customers and having to know every detail of each use case, their owners, status, next steps in this fashion is nearly impossible if you manage large accounts. Tech leadership suggests you "make something up" when a customer asks you a question and you don't know the answer instead of deferring and getting back to them with an appropriate answer. Constant internal communications terrified of Databricks. Poor commission program for sales engineers. Overall the worst job experience. Highly negative culture.

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5.0
16 Jun 2026
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Pros

Leadership has great initiatives for the organization

Cons

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1.0
24 Jun 2026
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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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