Pros: I love Samsara! * The company maintains a high talent bar across all teams, especially engineering. * The technology platform is very modern (Go, Typescript, React, GraphQL). * Kind, caring, funny coworkers - the company has great values. * The product is very well positioned to be a major IoT platform. * It feels like the company is firing on all cylinders. * There are lots of opportunities for rapid career growth. * Phenomenal executive leadership.

Cons: Since there is so much opportunity for business/product expansion, the team can be stretched a bit thin at times. The company moves very fast, so priorities can shift quickly at times. There are also many benefits that come from this.

Pros: Interesting technology/hard problems. Healthy and profitable business. Growth opportunities if you're willing to hustle and market yourself.

Cons: Declining growth opportunities/slower moving as the company gets bigger. Declining employee happiness/engagement. A lot of aggressive deadlines and burnout is common. Everyone is always heads down working all the time (even pre-COVID). Need to start managing politics/image if you want to grow your career. Employees viewed as replaceable – just extra bodies to hit deadlines.

Pros: Fully remote work, some very smart senior and staff developers, and good internal dev tooling. Local development and debugging are pretty smooth along with CI/CD. The culture was good until 2023.

Cons: Management and execs have become incredibly demanding since 2023. They push hard for new features without giving teams the time to scope them. Employees then take the blame and get let go immediately. I had a director literally tell me he "prioritizes work over family" in a one-on-one. Remote work here is deceptive because Samsara uses that to overwork employees. It is common now to be working from home during weekends or outside business hours. Oncall is the absolute worst. Depending on the team, expect about one week a month of never leaving your phone or computer. You can get paged at 3 AM, and you are expected to wake up and look at it. Your work metrics are also recorded to compare you to coworkers and serve as evidence to "up-and-out" you (fire you if not promoted).