Great product, leadership will drive you nuts - werkgeversreview Sr Sales Development Representative bij Snowflake

3,0
5 dec 2025
Aanbevelen
Goedkeuring directeur
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Pluspunten

Product is fantastic and at times can sell itself. The company hires well and you get to work alongside some of the sharpest minds in the industry where the learning opportunities are endless. Workforce is centered around younger reps that are motivated, want to make money and get promoted, and also want to enjoy themselves. Makes for a healthy, competitive work environment. Earning opportunities are solid, with some SDRs clearing $110k, but a lot of that depends on what team/territory you are assigned. Benefits, PTO, catered lunch, all good and nothing to complain about. If you can find a way to get promoted here then you are setting yourself up for a great career in the industry.

Minpunten

Despite how much the company has grown in such a fast timeline, leadership unfortunately still hasn't figured out how to navigate moving from a startup to large corporation. Constant ramping up and then cutting staff. Environment is very fast-paced and not for those who don't handle stress well. They preach promotion opportunities but there is realistically a 10% chance of internal promotion from SDR>AE, and they are not transparent about this as they don't want to scare any SDRs away. A lot of your success depends on what team/patch you are placed in: customer territory = less stress, automatic quota attainment, higher pay, and leadership recognition; new business territory = longer hours, harder work, realistically less pay and little to no recognition. Leadership acts like it is a level playing field when it is clearly skewed. Office politics can be a problem, and sometimes success comes down to who you know. Networking is crucial and can feel like a superficial game having to brown-nose. Quotas are senseless, being based around meeting quantity over quality. Doesn't matter if your meetings are progressing to opportunities/deals, if you don't book 30 pointless meetings with lower level personas then you won't hit quota. How does this help the business? Who the hell knows. Management is also very young, with many of them being under 30 y/o, achieving that title because they were good reps previously but lack management skills. Managers more or less just look at reports and actually provide little to no hands-on coaching for their reps.

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5,0
16 jun 2026
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Pluspunten

Leadership has great initiatives for the organization

Minpunten

Need for being present in the Office

1,0
24 jun 2026
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Goedkeuring directeur
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Pluspunten

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

Minpunten

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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