Once a rockstar, now only deserves a single star - werkgeversreview Engineer bij Salesforce

1,0
19 dec 2013
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Talented people, downtown SF location, CEO Marc is great in continuing to maintain a momentum as well as buzz in the market

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A lot has gone wrong lately at Salesforce.com. I will list a few: * Acquisitions left and right are not very motivating for the employees as they are now just becoming integration agents rather than innovating anything that they can be proud of. * Don't believe the Gartner report or Forbes Most Innovative company award. Innovation is at it lowest point in the company ever. Most people in R&D are completely disassociated with the product they are building. Forget about innovation, they don't even understand the customer needs well enough. * Salesforce is now like a giant Sloth. Things that used to get done in a week now take over a year. Rapid hiring to improve the speed has helped in the past but hiring more people, especially in R&D isn't valuable anymore. * Most old-timers in R&D have left including both executives and engineers. New executives hired in R&D are kinda old-school Oracle/EMC guys who don't even know what Salesforce used to be. Culture has changed beyond repair. Result: No innovation, not much accountability, politics, bunch of process that no one needs but no one dares to change. * Ancient technologies, monolithic giant code base that no one really understands now. No unit testing, everything is tested through functional blackbox testing; you can change something that can result in something completely unrelated broken; Developer productivity is at the lowest that I have ever seen in my career. Think about it this way - You code for a day and fix test failures for next 5 days. Not rewarding at all. * Big initiatives always keep coming in a top-down way. More than half of them end up nowhere.

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5,0
28 jun 2026
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Good environment great teammate,clear evaluation system

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Continue work, there's a few opportunity to work on some innovative projects

4,0
9 jul 2014
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I've spent over 8 years with Salesforce in various management and individual contributor roles, all customer or partner facing. Some of the pros: - vibrant, fast paced culture - smart, fun, aggressive colleagues - management is focused on latest tech trends and staying or becoming a leader for many of them - by and large, customers and partners are very positive about the technology - good benefits and perqs - hip urban culture at HQ - a chart-your-own-course mentality that rewards those who aggressively seek out the job they want and pursue it, or sometimes even create it

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After my long tenure and many Dreamforce conferences, I'm nearly fried. To say the culture is fast paced and the focus is always changing is an understatement. The reason Salesforce always seems on top, and chasing the latest trend, and in the press, is because employees are expected to run harder, carry more, cheer loudly, and pivot constantly. It's the world's biggest startup in behavior. But at the same time, with the recent influx of top career sales leaders from Oracle and what appears to be a board-level mandate for doubling revenue, employees are being asked to do even more with even less, fill higher quotas with smaller territories, less help, and the big company bureaucracy is rearing it's ugly head. Worse still is the politics. When you hire a bunch of smart, aggressive people, and put them in an environment of outsized expectations, throw in a bunch of re-orgs and changing management, and sprinkle with uncertainty and constantly changing priorities, you inevitably get people back stabbing each other and throwing others under the bus to appear smarter and more worthy of promotion. The few at the top will get very, very rich. The rest will lose the sense of personal ownership and start to wonder why they've given up health and family

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It's not often that you get the opportunity to respond to a review 10 years in but your comprehensive and thoughtful review has managed to hold on as one of our most popular even a decade in :) It’s exciting to see that the things we love most about the Salesforce of today — super smart colleagues, being at the forefront of tech trends and establishing ourselves as leaders in the space, great benefits and perks to name a few — haven’t changed in the past 10 years. We acknowledge the challenges you faced, such as the pace, shifting priorities, and internal politics. Your advice on maintaining our foundational vision while avoiding big-company bureaucracy is helpful as we continue to grow as the #1 AI CRM. Salesforce is committed to balancing growth with employee well-being and staying true to our core values. We appreciate your insights and dedication over the years. Thanks again for your feedback!
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