Snowflake

Montana
Cloud & Data Storage

Risk Level:

Rating - Clear
Lower Risk

Summary:

Snowflake Inc. is a cloud computing–based data warehousing company. It has not terminated business relationships due to religious or political beliefs and has not used its image or resources to support ideological groups or causes hostile to freedom of expression. For these reasons, Snowflake receives a "Lower Risk" rating.

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Corporate Weaponization
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Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

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There are no publicly known cases of Snowflake terminating business relationships due to religious or political beliefs.

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Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

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Snowflake limits its charitable giving to STEM education, children’s hospitals, and various local community efforts like food banks. There are no guidelines prohibiting donations to faith-based charities (1).

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Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

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Snowflake does not protect employees from viewpoint discrimination (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
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Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

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Snowflake’s CEO apologized for comments he made, arguing that diversity was secondary to merit in the hiring process (1)(2). However, the company and its CEO have not used their reputation to advance ideological agendas.

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Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Snowflake does not use corporate dollars to support ideological groups hostile to freedom of expression (1).

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Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

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Snowflake does not have a PAC and does not make political contributions.

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March 24, 2023

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