Slack reviews

The culture has very much shifted and many engineers like myself feel more like a cog in a machine than ever before since the Salesforce acquisition. I can respect this model works for some as it depends on where you are in your life but as someone who wanted growth and challenge, you really need to make sure you're on the right engineering team at Slack that is doing the visible work. Because I felt like my growth had stagnated and that the bureaucracy of working at a big company was getting to me, I decided it was time to leave after several years of being at Slack. - very high turnover since the acquisition of Salesforce (mostly folks getting higher titles at startups) - dealing with Salesforce culture and bureaucracy (worse at D&I)

Lots of confusion, fake empowerment, meanness and secrecy. Competition within the marketing team, project stealing and disrespect of people's roles. Constant undermining to the point where even senior managers are informally demoted and cast aside. Overt favoritism, earned by being a yes man or woman and doing what you're told. The favorites can do ANYTHING they want, while others can do nothing right. Zero support from leadership. Inept, threatened, aggressive leadership with major imposter syndrome. There's nothing to learn from those in charge. In fact, be prepared to teach and then be punished for being "outspoken." Short-term thinking and planning resulting in missed opportunities. Hiring too many too fast, with overlapping responsibilities. Roles aren't defined well so it's hard to know who does what. Excited new hires are allowed to run with projects without including the right people. Before you know it, you've become redundant. HR has no power to help, as people are regularly complaining and inevitably leaving or being pushed out.