Salesforce.com Reviews in Dublin, Ireland Area

Pros

Remuneration
Work Hard -Play Hard Attitude
Forward Thinking Company
You can learn a great deal here.

Cons

Favouritism Shown at Times
Reasoning for Promotions Sometimes Questionable
Managements attitude can be a bit discouraging at times instead of inspiring.

Advice to Senior Management

Overall, you can learn a lot from many of the managers. My only advice would be to consider the overall effects to team morale when giving promotions and assigning territories.

Pros

Leading the change to a different business model in IT and believing in it, that creates an athmosphere of commitment and satisfaction. Very fair compensation and internal promotions into the organization. Great leadership and support from management

Cons

Because of the growht of the company the hiring was too fast and now there are some people that has not the level to keep with the company expectations . Sometimes decisions can be political and based in "what have to do" and not in "what shoul do". Very poor HR level.

Advice to Senior Management

We need to focus in the customer and hear what is important from them, and none internal or adminsitrative situation should be more important than that. We need to improve the fun we have working and help in creating a real work/life balance.

Pros

Good salary, good team, very exciting product and platform to work with. Company is cutting edge and progressive (in technical terms rather than corporate terms). Possible to advance on merit

Cons

Work life balance in services non-existent. Company grew too fast to keep up with the great team dynamic that made it such a creative, exciting, progressive place to work. US did not understand non-US jurisdictions and had not desire to do so. US tried to make it an overly structured, regimented corporate when it's greatest asset was it's agile, non-conformist style that enabled creativity, intrapreneurship and great teamwork

Advice to Senior Management

Don't just focus on keeping the product and platform agile - keep the team agile, enable flexibility, ensure accountability and responsibility but in fair and open terms. Welcome intrapreneurship in a way that acknowledges that risks and failure are certain but will lead to great things.
Don't lose your best people to ill-conceived, inflexible US-centric HR practices that kill the spirit

Pros

The product is superb, the management are switched on and this is a company that really feels like its going places.

Cons

Objectives can change too frequently and there are lots of PM changes

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you are doing and make sure that you are looking after staff the way you always have

Pros

Salesforce.com is an amazing company with massive potential in the CRM market, and endless possibilities to succeed in the platform market. Not only is salesforce.com one of the fastest growing and exciting companies to work for, it is also an excellent employer with a superb culture. It's charitable efforts via the salesforce.com/foundation give all employees the opportunity to give something meaningful back to the communities within which they work. There is honestly nowhere I'd rather be working than salesforce.com.

Cons

We work hard, but we play hard too :)

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to invest in your people. Our employees are our biggest asset.