Samsara

The product team feels tight-knit despite the current remote situation.

Really interesting product; it's fun to work on.

Autonomy and level of ownership as an engineer is excellent.

The company is growing very fast and continued to do so despite COVID.

Leadership seems to take employee concerns to heart and takes action.

Extremely competent CEO and senior leadership team.

• Layoffs last year due to COVID undeniably affected morale.
• Practically zero exposure to senior engineering leadership (CTO) as a rank-and-file engineer. I've only seen the CTO give a presentation once in over a year.
• Not exactly a "rest and vest" kind of place. WLB has been fine for me, but it's not exactly a 9-5 job.

• Make sure Comp 2.0 achieves its goal of ensuring we're attractive to top talent.
• Continue to ask about and address employee concerns so we can regain some of our lost ground here; being a "hot" company matters a lot in allowing us to recruit good people.
• Promote people from within and allow top performers to advance quickly.
• Keep being transparent and over-communicate.