Salesforce.com Reviews in San Francisco, CA Area

Pros

Colleagues, management, opportunities, pace, atmosphere.

Cons

people that makes no sense but have the authority.

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

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

Interesting technology with contemporary products
fast paced with lots of work to do
philanthropic with opportunities to volunteer

Cons

treat new comers with contempt
there is no real management support due to fast pace
tedious work in a Machiavellian environment

Advice to Senior Management

Real managers aren't just people who do a good job, they are people who know how to communicate with and motivate diverse personalities. Give training to mangers and if they are managing people give them the title; my manager was dissatisfied with her role and was more focused on figuring out how to manage her own career than she was with managing me. She left her position, but not without some passive aggressive angst. I got mismanaged as a result. I have thirteen years of tech experience, mainly between two of the more successful tech companies in the valley, and have been in management before, so I know what I am talking about. The best companies aren't just interested in growth and domination, they are interested in effectively managing real people.

Pros

Great pay, flexible work environment and friendly coworkers. Furthermore, they are very flexible with work-from-home arrangements. And the products rock.

Cons

Almost too fast-paced for their own good. Due to complexity and rapid release schedule of new features, software is difficult to support.

Advice to Senior Management

Spend some time to focus on product usability and stability. The new products are great, but don't lose track of the old ones.

Pros

Strong growth and fun culture.

Cons

Not much room for upward mobility

Advice to Senior Management

Develop talent don't just acquire it

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

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