How’s snowflake? Culturally compared to big tech? I’ve only ever worked at big companies (100k + employees) and I’ve been feeling like a cog… I know snowflake isn’t that small anymore either but would it be a culture shock to switch? Also I heard they do quarterly reviews. Isn’t that stressful? Or does it give more opportunities for high performers?
An upgrade from Google but much faster paced especially if you're coming from legacy teams like search. Quarterly reviews are lightweight for IC and make bonus come every 3 months, but they aren't the focus everyone worships like perf was. I had the same feeling you did when I left Google but I do work a lot more now, and not experiencing the toxic things you hear here. We had people from Google fired because they think they're the shit and don't do good work, but no one cares you're from Google everyone is from GCP/AWS/azure.
What’s WLB like?
WLB below average. No coasting or rest and vest.
Many threads were made on this. Run a search and you’ll find out. Definitely a high pace of work environment. WLB is subjective. If you’re a high performer you’ll be fine (and rewarded). If you’re not, your work hours will pile up. Quarterly reviews are PITA but you’ll get used to it. I did lol. Not a place to rest and vest like Google because we got a rocket ship to build! Benefits sucks ass
Ohh benefits are that bad? I heard they don’t match 401k O.O anything else I should be aware of? I’ll also do a search of course hehe
Yeah no 401k match. Other employee discounts are piss poor. Maternity is 6 months. Paternity is 3. No tuition or education reimbursement either
Join at your own risk. Similar to Amazon, very manager dependent. Managers have a lot of control. Quarterly reviews. No PIP just straight to fire if that’s what your manager wants. Frank also states we don’t do layoffs, so you do the math - fires that should be layoffs, and no severance. It’s still fast and interesting but not as much as it used to be. Company is slowly becoming bloated with bureaucracy and overly political management.
I heard similar. Lots of middle management VPs who aren’t technical and think of themselves as “executives” so quarterly reviews are short sighted because they don’t have a strategy or a plan. Looks like a lot of performance problems come from these types.
"Middle management VPs" what org is this lol? There are barely any VP+ in engineering.
Is Snowflake’s offer valid for 1 year or is it accept or loose it?
Difficult to survive in hot summer 😀 (because snow melts )