Salesforce reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(22,576 total reviews)
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Marc Benioff

79% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Salesforce has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 22,576 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Salesforce employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Jul 3, 2016

Rotting from Within

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Pros

The company was once technologically disruptive. They are currently stable, growing and profitable. Most of the people are good. The salaries are some of the highest, and benefits extremely generous. Each employee is allow to volunteer 6 days per year with pay (though it can be hard to schedule VTO).

Cons

Technically, the company is lackluster, yet has drunk it's own kool-aid, believing itself to be innovative. User interface is implemented with a proprietary framework (Aura) that is universally criticized by its users as inferior to Aspect and other industry standards, but is ferociously defended by company insiders. Similarly, storage is done via a proprietary layer atop a small number of massive Oracle databases. This means that one database outage affects a large number of customers. The Oracle centric mindset of the "old boys" has been incredibly resistant to change. Unit testing is slowly gaining acceptance, but is still by far the exception to the rule. The monolithic nature of the code base means that tests may take several days to catch regressions. Somehow, mediocrity and risk aversion have become the norm, perhaps due to the senior management blaming failures on the very staff who are doing more than the minimum possible, and are therefore "visible".

3.0
May 20, 2016

Exhausting Place to Work

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Pros

Salesforce is a very innovative and exciting company to work for that genuinely puts the customer first. It is filled with incredibly smart and passionate employees who can be inspiring to work alongside. It also provides excellent benefits and compensation. And their philanthropic model is key to employee satisfaction.

Cons

Salesforce is a very demanding place to work and 12 - 15 hour workdays are the norm across many departments. While the company talks about the importance of wellness and encourages employees to take care of themselves, they have yet to modify the actual workload and expectations that would allow employees to do that.

5.0
Oct 1, 2015
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Pros

Fun, dynamic, great people, innovative. Great company and their philanthropic model is amazing. They definitely make it cool to work

Cons

Still operating as a start up. Lacking programatic approaches and there is a lack of fiscal responsibility. Another thing noticed is a lot of "punting the ball" as there is no accountability.

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