Samsara

• Smart tech (although open to some infringement claims right now)
• Hard-working people
• A mature product that sells well in the marketplace. Stock price will likely continue to rise.
• Solid office in SF.
• Some teams still working on new and interesting product lines, e.g., ML.
• Established name in tech, so helpful on a resume for future roles.
• Chance to work at a large customer scale.

Inexperienced people in wrong places making bad decisions.

Serious accumulation of tech debt.

In the "sales stage" of the Silicon Valley lifecycle, really trying to push up revenue and focus on sales instead of engineering innovation.

Poor culture of accountability; leaders get poor visibility into problems, and problems get pushed onto the engineers.

Bad engineering attrition, leaving new engineers to figure out what's what with little support.

Sub-par documentation, which really hurts new engineer onboarding.

Office was pretty dead.

On-call culture (depending on team) was flat-out miserable.

Hiring is really hard, and culture is incredibly difficult to fix once it's been established. I would say treat engineers better, but I know the sales machine will continue to ramp up product with little engineering support behind it.