Salesforce.com Reviews

Pros

The people at Salesforce are all very friendly. My coworkers were always eager to help me, as I was for them.

Cons

None that I can think of, other then some days being a bit slow due to finishing the day's work early.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the energy and fun atmosphere of the workplace, it really pumps people for the day ahead.

Pros

best product and best marketing

Cons

still in growth mode - organizational issues will work them selves out

Advice to Senior Management

keep building a great product and awesome marketing

Pros

* Decent Healthcare benefits
* Decent Salary
* Hire great people
* Great location

Cons

* Career advancement is only for people that come in through an acquisition
* Very difficult to gain visibility in the organization
* Technology is not innovative anymore
* Management does not pay much attention to performance reviews
* Ability to advance is based on how much people like you and not the risks and challenges you are willing to take on
* Very difficult to move up in the product organization if you are female
* People are very concerned about 'level' and it is not much of a meritocracy
* Stock options are only for executives

Pros

Marc Benioff is a great leader and visionary. His vision is understood and executed on by many employees within the company. Solid product / service offering with a generally good market perception.

Cons

Incredibly political. No longer a company that can act quickly and adjust to a changing competitive landscape. Product is heading in a good direction with the Social applications, but lack of focus on the core functionality has caused dissatisfaction with the customers. No work-life balance.

Pros

Salesforce.com is truly an innovative company, constantly reinventing itself and providing customers with exciting new products and services. Career paths are well defined and limitless for sales professionals.

Cons

Change occurs frequently, and directives from senior management can shift quite suddenly, be unclear or simply unknown. While career paths are exceptional for sales people, other departments must fight tooth and nail for advancement.

Advice to Senior Management

Your tremendous focus on sales brings a growing customer base that needs to be fed and watered by others in the company. Don't neglect your non-sales people!

Pros

After five months at Salesforce, here are my pros:
- Some of the smartest people I've worked with
- Great benefits
- Fair compensation
- Incredible creativity, innovation, and vision
- Happy and loyal customers
- Beautiful employees
- San Francisco HQ

Cons

And after five months at Salesforce, here are a few cons:
- Long work days (and nights) - It's not uncommon for me to work early in the morning until late into the night. I do some sort of work most weekends too.
- Political - But most places I've worked have politics.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work. It's great working for a company that encourages hard work and rewards its employees well.

Pros

Good company overall but not sure if sr management are all good and be able to keep up with the growth of the company. management can "talk" but can't "deliver" - meaning they can present and show a very good deck in front of audience, but in actuality, their deliverable and overall execution are so so or even very bad.

Cons

Some know how to play the game and can continue to be dysfunctional. VP can cover for them and continue to allow bonuses and special perks alike.

Some claim they are very busy, have a lot of meetings, while accusing people who always working at their desk pathetic and "anti-social". In reality, they don't even sit down long enough at their cube to get to know the people around them, and how can they accuse people "anti-social"?

By being not at their cube, by being loud that they think they can control and be "influential". All people working under this kind of management are clueless and direction-less.

Some "senior" management mostly came from another big giant company. They claimed that they have been successful in their former company and have been very "influential". This part is not well understood since how "influential" they could be if they needed to get out of their former companies, which are so much bigger than Salesforce, and willing to work for a start up?

Also senior management compete with each other - and it is very obvious. They back stab each other by spreading out words to employees. This makes the entire division even more clueless.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to attend more latest management training. Be more inspirational.
Do not let the company's overall "sales" impression affect your job.
Do the work, do it more carefully and deal with the issues upfront.
Do not socialize too much without spending time with your employees and do the work.
You can't deliver just by relying your employees at work, or by going out partying all week.

Pros

fun work place
fast paced
game changing technology

Cons

growing pains - small start up corporate culture often clashes with big company growth

Pros

The people are smart, genuinely happy, get their work done and do it well. I'd do anything to help my teammates and my manager out, and know they'd do the same for me. People are respectful, fair, honest. Jerks are just not allowed. It's like a very healthy body -- if a bad seed sneaks in, a bunch of healthy cells surround it and gently show it how to behave. Pay is great, product is taking off, Benioff leads by example -- he started this company and he's still here. He's passionate about what we do, and gives credit to his team(s) for making his vision(s) come to fruition.

Couldn't be happier.

Cons

None really. It is a large organization, and it's doubling/tripling in size. Being in such high growth mode, it can sometimes be challenging to on-board people quickly (get their laptops up and working, access to systems, etc sometimes takes a bit).

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you're doing!

Pros

Smart people, great teams to work with

Cons

Long hours, intense, but in a good way

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the innovation coming