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Adventures with a “Major Account Executive” at Snowflake

Cristian Scutaru
2 min readFeb 12, 2025

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I obfuscated on purpose every identifiable information, because it is only about a question of principle here, not this dude. I find this guy on LinkedIn, celebrating every two days or so basic introductory courses he watches on Coursera. I gave however a Like and left a very nice comment at the latest “celebration”, suggesting that we should rather celebrate serious achievements, like passing hard and expensive SnowPro certification exams.

Then I repost to my own followers, with the kind message below:

The guy comes after me super-aggressive, like it was the end of the world. Here is all the final exchange (on my thread). After which he immediately blocked me, I still don’t know why:

…What’s with these people, that they cannot simply stand a different opinion?!

We “celebrate” indeed today — on LinkedIn or whatever — all sort of stuff which is…

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Cristian Scutaru
Cristian Scutaru

Written by Cristian Scutaru

World-class expert in Snowflake Data Cloud. Former Snowflake "Data Superhero" and SnowPro SME (Subject Matter Expert). 7x SnowPro certification exams.

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