Snowflake
San Mateo, CA · founded 2012
Snowflake is the cloud data-warehouse company that became one of the defining enterprise-software IPOs, and it has spent 2024 through 2026 pivoting hard toward AI on top of its data platform. Sridhar Ramaswamy took over as CEO from Frank Slootman in early 2024 and has pushed an AI-first agenda, with product revenue reaching about $4.72B in fiscal 2026. It is a well-funded, sales-strong, engineering-serious company that moved its headquarters from Bozeman, Montana toward the Bay Area (Menlo Park) as it scaled. Benefits are comprehensive if not loudly advertised: health insurance with HSAs, retirement plans, life and disability cover, an ESPP plus new-hire equity, fertility and family-planning support and on-demand mental-health programs. It fits data-infrastructure and go-to-market people who want a category leader in the data-and-AI space, with the usual high-growth-public-company intensity around quota and delivery.
see the full file on Snowflakedocumented benefits (19)
| Fertility support | yes |
|---|---|
| Stock purchase plan | yes |
| Mental health | yes |
| Dental | yes |
| Vision | yes |
| Disability | yes |
| Life insurance | yes |
| Home-office stipend | offered |
| HSA | yes |
| Employee discount portal | yes |
| Median filed wage | $180,710 |
| Gender pay gap, median | 30.8% |
| Gender pay gap, mean | 26.3% |
| Bonus gap, median | 53.4% |
| Women in the top pay quartile | 16.7% |
| Women in the workforce | 26.8% |
| Last round | $376,098,366 |
| Last round closed | 2026-02-17 |
| Total raised | $2,406,937,150 |
what Snowflake pays
Median of 99 certified wages filed with the US Department of Labor: $180,710.
Half of Snowflake's certified filings fall between $152,000 and $212,202.
| role | median | filings | range |
|---|---|---|---|
| software engineer | $187,574 | 32 filings | $135,699 to $213,512 |
| senior software engineer | $213,512 | 10 filings | $212,202 to $214,000 |
| senior solution engineer | $167,627 | 9 filings | $155,625 to $198,702 |
| solutions architect | $144,310 | 6 filings | $130,562 to $166,899 |
| staff cloud support engineer | $138,965 | 2 filings | $134,971 to $138,965 |
Source: US Department of Labor, FY2025 Q4. Read 2026-07-27.
notable perks
- Annual holiday party with sledding — 'Sleighing at the Annual Holiday Party'
- Company Diwali celebrations
- Women in Tech networking and connection events
- The Snowcast — a monthly internal newsletter spotlighting news, culture and events
- 'People of Snowflake' employee-profile series celebrating staff backgrounds and passions
- 'Snowflake for Good' company volunteering and community-giving program
- Weekly lunch-and-learns open to all employees
- Virtual workout classes for staff, including those working from home
the legal floor where they are
Set by law, not by Snowflake. It applies to every employer in CA.
| IVF cycles the state covers | California requires IVF from 1 January 2026, and only from large employers. SB 729 (2024) rewrote Health and Safety Code § 1374.55 so that a large group health care service plan contract 'issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026, shall provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and fertility services, including a maximum of three completed oocyte retrievals with unlimited embryo transfers', following ASRM guidelines and using single embryo transfer where medically appropriate. Large group means 100 or more employees. Small group plans need only be OFFERED the coverage rather than provide it, religious employers are excluded, Medi-Cal managed care is exempt, and CalPERS plans are delayed to 1 July 2027. The original 1 July 2025 date was pushed back a budget trailer bill, AB 116 (2025). THE LIMIT THAT DECIDES WHETHER THIS REACHES YOU: a state insurance mandate binds only fully insured plans. A self-funded employer plan is governed federally under ERISA and is preempted, and KFF's 2025 employer survey puts 67% of covered workers — 80% at firms of 200 or more — in a self-funded plan. At most large California employers this law therefore does not apply, and the fertility benefit on the page is the company's own choice. (Senate Bill 729 (2024), which repealed and added Section 1374.55 of the Health and Safety Code and amended Section 10119.6 of the Insurance Code; the operative date was moved from 1 July 2025 to 1 January 2026 by Assembly Bill 116 (2025).) |
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| Adoption leave the law gives | 12 workweeks of UNPAID job-protected leave in any 12-month period on the placement of a child for adoption or foster care, and only for employees who meet the FMLA eligibility test. There is no federal paid adoption leave. (Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(B) and 2612(c); eligibility at 29 U.S.C. 2611(2) and (4). Quoted from the 2023 edition of the US Code.) |
| Pay when you are ill | No federal law requires any paid sick leave. The FLSA does not require payment for time not worked, and the FMLA gives 12 workweeks of UNPAID job-protected leave in any 12-month period for a serious health condition, and only for employees who meet the FMLA eligibility test. Any paid sick time comes from a state or city law, or from the employer's own choice. (Fair Labor Standards Act, per the Department of Labor's statement on payment for time not worked; Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(D) and 2612(c). Quoted from the 2023 edition of the US Code on govinfo.gov.) |
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