The most toxic Marketing team in the industry - Marketing Manager Snowflake Employee Review

1.0
May 12, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive salary, good benefits and nice office Strong brand reputation, looks good on CV

Cons

The most toxic workplace I have ever been in, especially in the Marketing team. From the top down, the entire Marketing organization operates on the principle of being part of the 'inner circle' and how likeable you are to the few in the 'leadership' team who make the decisions on who gets promoted and who gets a raise. There are no targets, no KPIs, no accountability, no career progression discussions, it's all about being 'in' or not. People with very little to no experience (apart from the experience gained at Snowflake - which really amounts to nothing) are the ones who get promoted time and time again, as they have been there since before the IPO and have brown nosed the leadership team. The team is huge and most people fiddle their thumbs while some execute the only thing they know how to do: events. The 'strategic' or 'planning' sessions are at best mediocre, a waste of time, where leadership asks individual contributors for their opinion on how to support sales, only to end up doing the same thing: branded cupcakes, the tired mascot and of course, events. Marketing mediocrity aside, the worst of it is the toxicity in the workplace; people are treated with disrespect, belittled and actively discouraged from applying for roles that would grant them an internal promotion. People are often marginalised during 'team building' events or get togethers, where only the members of the cliques have access to leadership visibility. HR bury their heads in the sand and they never take any action to look into concerns brought forward around bullying, people struggling with anxiety, toxicity in the workplace.

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1.0
May 4, 2026
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Pros

Compensation is the only thing they do right

Cons

Snowflake could learn something from Microsoft’s recent voluntary buyout of older workers. Instead, they make up bogus performance issues with their ridiculous quarterly review process. Manager’s flat out lie in these reviews and HR refuses to investigate. Instead of owning burnt sales territories and working on solutions for the field, they point fingers at individual performers. They allow management to flat out lie. Even support staff (solutions engineering) are not safe from these toxic tactics. Principal engineers with multiple years of excellence with the company are let go because of their age. The real need to layoff is hidden… broken territories and toxic management.

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