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I am approached by Snowflake. How do you (or did you) like working there? Also PIP-rich?
Best place I’ve ever worked out of a mix of startups and Microsoft. High expectations as you should expect at any top paying company. My biggest gripe is some of the process/political BS that I don’t enjoy as much as other day to day work, but it comes with the territory at this stage of company. It’s not an early stage startup anymore but still has some startup mentality. People do get pipped and let go, but not willy nilly. It’s not a place to coast, we do what we have to do to earn high pay.
Recommended teams?
The part that worries me about Snowflake is that they hired way too many managers. Seems like they used to be flat and now are becoming like companies where Amazon where there can be too many mediocre line managers which don't add too much value and add too much process. Hopefully those guys can be pruned out of the organization since everything else sounds great (high expectations, great work, great pay)
It’s awesome working at Snowflake!
Totally not a recruiter
If WLB is not on the top 5 list of priorities for you, you’ll be fine at Snowflake. I like it because I get monies but I also lose some cool due to politics. I take a day off or two to chill, get my headspace right and then go back to grinding lmao. But if you have the option to earn more money with the same constraints, choose Meta
WLB heavily depends on team. Outside of PM / Eng the pay isn’t all that great. So if your role interacts or work with technical teams frequently (therefore have to work at their pace) you will be working like crazy without the commensurate comp to go with it. From where I am at - Sales can be a grind at a couple of places but generally not too bad, marketing folks seem pretty chill, so is HR. Finance vary from pretty decent to really bad depending on sub-function and manager. Legal is really bad. Other teams I am not too sure of. People are generally really nice, politics have gotten a lot worse the last year or so. Typical big company stuff creeping in, turf wars and exec access fights.
What engineering teams are known for a worse wlb?
What team? Multiple posts in snowflake forum about being overworked, under appreciated as well as toxic coworkers.. lucky ones are those who joined preipo rest majority in Dublin office are here because they say in Pleasanton area else they would quit..
I’ve heard good things from the folks I know that are there or have been there. Thinking of joining
Non technical role