Salesforce reviews

4.1

79% would recommend to a friend

(22,492 total reviews)
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Marc Benioff

80% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Salesforce has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 22,492 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Salesforce employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informatique industry (3.7 stars).

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4.0
Feb 1, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Prime real estate in San Francisco and free snacks make for a decent work environment. Employees are given paid time for volunteerism. The engineering division is still small, so you have your chance to make an impact. Small teams (arranged around scrum) allow everyone a chance to excel. Engineering management are fairly dedicated to listening to feedback and improving processes. Management is respectful towards employees, allowing them to explore their options. Engineers get as many huge monitors as they need to be productive =). The demands of "on-demand" software are high-quality. Customers of salesforce's software also expect fast innovation. As such, working here is demanding and should be a challenge and a chance to hone your development chops. Also, as it is with web software, it's cool to see your work instantly deployed to a large user base (compare this to nature of patches and upgrades in the on-premise software world).

Cons

Respect is due to the visionaries who pioneered the "Software as a Service" model through this company. However, there's is a considerable contingent in the product organization that relishes politics and competition. Superiority complexes and inflated egos are commonplace. As a new employee here, expect to be the recipient of a fair measure of paranoia and condescension. Salesforce has a reputation for being a PR-hungry company. As such, the company tends to be somewhat fickle in its direction, always going for the big bang and you never know how important your projects are. On the flip-side, if you're the right person in the right place at the right time you might find yourself in the middle of some exciting opportunities. The flip-side of being in a small engineering division (mentioned above) is that the work never stops. Work/life balance isn't great.

2.0
Jan 23, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compensation. They pay well. But the bullsh#t isn't worth the pay. I could deal with it for about a year. Was just killing time after that till my options vested and then got out. Terrible place to work.

Cons

Politics. Lots of it. Backstabbing. Lots of it. Lots of egos that think that they're gods gift to the world. That's what created the dot-com boom/bust and that's what will do in this company. It's just software people... get a grip. They like to hire contractors to "shadow" full-time people and threaten to replace you with the contractor if you didn't do exactly what they want.

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