Salesforce.com Reviews

Pros

Marc Benioff, Industry Leadership, San Francisco location, good pay and benefits, intelligent co-workers, holiday party, employee stock purchase program, cool products that I enjoy using at work

Cons

Very political, constant leadership changes, old guard clipping vesting options, slow internal processes, arrogance is rewarded, very intense culture

Pros

Colleagues, management, opportunities, pace, atmosphere.

Cons

people that makes no sense but have the authority.

Pros

Great pay, good people. Successful company, interesting work. Very flexible. Very open culture with great internal communications system. Not averse to conflict, but communication is respectful. Willing to spend money when its needed. Truly agile, releasing every four months. Invest heavily in test automation.

Cons

Old, complex, monolithic code base. Very slow and buggy build and test automation system. Senior people accept the status quo. Little unit testing, test driven development and paired programming. Hiring process is slow and unreliable. Internal systems complex and fragmented.

Advice to Senior Management

Technical leaders need to nurture change and improvement. Challenge the status quo. Continue to invest in modularizing, modernizing and speeding up the development environment. Break down the silos between user design, development and quality engineering, and make team members accountable to the team, not functional managers.

Pros

Work on cutting edge technology with the best and the brightest engineers. Salesforce.com also gives back to the community in a big way. Fortune's Best Companies to Work For: Salesforce.com is #27.

Cons

There are so many opportunities to learn and get involved in various initiatives, that it can easily take a lot of time from one's primary responsibilities.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to focus on what current and potential customers need and want. Continue to evolve processes to streamline workflow and increase quality.

Pros

awesome culture, great benefits and pay, great people, lots of opportunity

Cons

sitting in front of a computer a lot

Pros

Salesforce is a very forward-thinking and progressive company. Pay is generous, and the company goes out of its way after you are hired to make you feel important. Orientation takes in place in San Francisco, and they'll fly you down there. Part of orientation involves volunteer work at a local charitable organization; in fact the company gives you an additional paid week off each year to devote toward volunteer work. Benefits are excellent, and include fitness expense reimbursement ($100/mo) in addition to full medical, health and dental. My division buys the entire office catered lunch twice a week, although that perk doesn't apply everywhere.

Managers are fair, and don't ask their employees to work to exhaustion. The company is growing at a rapid pace, so there is plenty of room for growth and advancement. Finally, there is the name recognition that comes with working at a prestigious company. Salesforce. People in the IT world place it in the same category as Google and Apple. Even if you don't stick around long-term, it looks great on a resume.

Cons

Interoffice scuttlebutt is of course an issue, but it's not a problem unique to Salesforce by any means. In the division I am a part of, there is no formalized training or onboarding program, so the first couple weeks can be rough while you get acclimated. With all the growth, sales territories are constantly being moved around and this can make rapport building with clients difficult.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the great work. There are teething problems to be worked out, but overall I feel you guys are one competent bunch that do a great job of balancing the company's and employees' interests.

Pros

Nice people
Good pay compared to other companies

Cons

Nothing much to grow at least in my dept

Pros

Great place to work, allows one to be as aggressive or easy going as one wants rewarding hard work and results.
Gives folks the opportunity to easily change groups and try new areas of the cloud stack.

Cons

Some of the older employees have a great sense of entitlement and huge egos and treat newer folks unfailrly. Some groups go nuts following the internal agile development methodology actually ending up being less effective.
Too many layers of management creeping in as the company grows leading to excessive bureaucracy and politics.

Pros

Flexibility in how I do my job, while keeping me accountable for end results. Support (real and active) of volunteering in my community.

Cons

If you need a lot of feedback in order to feel good about yourself or how you are doing you may want to consider the type of job you are applying for. Sales is highly structured and very results-driven with immediate feedback. Other roles may not provide feedback as regularly.

Pros

Great leadership, no fear of changes in constant motion, friendly and professional colleagues

Cons

Are we growing too fast?