Samsara

Silicon Valley-style perks: lunches, snacks, care packages during COVID.

Unlimited PTO.

WFH/Remote friendly.

Youthful atmosphere, not stuffy or formal.

Very heavy workload.

Will be asked to take on tasks outside of your role.

Goalposts move for promotions and leveling.

Product team has high turnover, so teams are left to self-organize for projects.

Chaos and poor planning.

Constant pressure to release products, even at the risk of poor quality.

A big layoff left all the "survivors" to clean up the mess and were expected to carry on at the same productivity level but had to take on all the work left by the departed.

Good employees are burning out and leaving.

Salaries are no longer competitive to other offers because of freezing salary increases for promotions.

I was really excited about working at Samsara, but now I'm very excited to leave. I have been doing so much work and handling so much stress, and it never feels like enough. There's always another ping on Slack for me to do something else. I'm so exhausted.

Product and Quality professionals are just as important as Software Engineers. You can't expect them to keep "doing more with less." The workload is too high.