Underpaid and unforgiving sales culture. - Sales Snowflake Employee Review

2.0
Jun 18, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You will be selling an excellent product at a fast-growing company and there is also a lot of great senior leadership at the C level.

Cons

Snowflake has a cutthroat sales culture that is very difficult to survive in. There are a lot of salespeople and your success will largely depend on the account list you inherit. The golden age to join Snowflake was between 2016 and 2019. It gets more and more difficult to get promoted now and you most likely will be working for someone who succeeded in a much bigger territory with a much easier number to hit. In some cases, some of the leadership doesn't have a damn clue how to sell Snowflake. Nowadays most reps come closer to 50% of quota AT BEST through upselling existing customers that they were lucky enough to inherit. The reality is that you will not be getting paid enough to assume the amount of stress you will take on to hit your number at Snowflake.

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Pros

Leadership has great initiatives for the organization

Cons

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1.0
Jun 24, 2026
Recommend
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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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