Samsara

• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Some incredibly friendly and helpful ICs. Many of the smartest and most fun people I've worked with in my life are here.

The culture has completely flipped on its head. A company that I thought was a unicorn at first in prioritizing people and treating its employees like actual adults went from just that to a cutthroat place where the only thing that mattered was seeing stakeholder value go up.

The culture went from mutual respect and a willingness to help everyone to micromanaging (keeping metrics of AI tool acceptance rate and putting a threshold on it), cutting people after years of solid output if they started to dip at all, and allowing more senior engineers to be as rude as they want to newer people as long as they were technically correct.

I can't understand why Samsara would shift so far from what got them to the place they were at circa early 2024.

I know it's a business and profit is king, but the reason Samsara worked as well as it has was because of the people.

Once you lose that, the money may very well go as well.

I'd really urge management and above to reevaluate the way they cut people so quickly and allow a toxic culture of belittlement and pressure to fester so much.