The WORST company and the LAST COMPANY that you should consider - all is just MARKETING GIMMICK!! - Sales Salesforce Employee Review

1.0
4 Sept 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Good compensation and benefit overall

Cons

Salesforce APAC is the bad and poor management compare with other regions. Politics, Blaming each other, "Pointing finger", inconsistency, MICRO management, insult and public harassment (especially during forecast review), favouritism are all happened here. It was bring me to surprise as they have been always proud to be "THE BEST WORKPLACE", but in reality, IT IS FAR away from best workplace. Value: They put "TRUST" as number 1 value but it is not the case. It is just MARKETING act to drive market perception and attract people to join. Micro management has been cascaded from top management to manager. They grilled people during forecast call, humiliate them in front of peers, inappropriate wording that I have never seen in my whole careers. Value number 2 is "Customer Success" which is all MARKETING only. What they care is only BRING THE DEALS IN, at every cost! They are not really care even the customer ended up with fail implementation, they just "hit and run" sales management. Value number 3 - Innovation, they tried to launch new innovation but their partner ecosystems are not ready. A lot of escalation happened and nobody would like to take the ownership. Value number 4 - equality, Favouritism are happening here. People got promoted just only because they pleased top management. You need to be their inner circle to get promoted. TRANSPARENCY is the BIGGEST problem in Salesforce. Last week was "sad week" in almost every region in the world. After strong earning report, they announced that there will be a "reshaping the business" which is LAY OFF - which was the same day they cut thousand people around the world. They called - "RESHAPING ", "People that get impacted", "Sunset organisation" and any other terminology then LAY OFF. They says that they are growing and actively hiring but the fact is: A lot of peoples are resign and very rare for people to stay more than 2 years or even 1 year, they keep hiring because they need to fill in the position.

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4.0
9 July 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

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

Cons

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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