"Stifling Work Environment: Overwhelming Hours, Micromanagement, and Lack of Recognition at Salesforce SMDS"** - Senior Software Engineer Salesforce Employee Review

2.0
8 Sept 2024
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Pros

Here’s a balanced take on the pros of working at Salesforce SMDS: **Pros:** 1. **Innovative Technology:** Salesforce is a leader in cloud computing and customer relationship management (CRM), providing employees with exposure to cutting-edge technologies and industry best practices. 2. **Diverse and Inclusive Culture:** The company promotes a diverse and inclusive work environment, offering a range of employee resource groups and initiatives aimed at fostering a supportive and respectful workplace. 3. **Career Development Opportunities:** Salesforce offers numerous resources for professional growth, including training programs, mentorship, and the possibility to work on a variety of projects within the organization. 4. **Strong Benefits Package:** The company provides competitive salaries, comprehensive health benefits, and various perks like wellness programs, flexible working arrangements, and generous time-off policies. 5. **Collaborative Work Environment:** There is a strong emphasis on teamwork and collaboration, with a culture that encourages employees to share ideas and work together towards common goals. 6. **Global Reach:** Working at Salesforce gives employees the opportunity to be part of a global company with a vast network, offering the chance to connect with professionals from around the world and gain international experience.

Cons

Certainly! Here’s a blunt take on the cons: **Cons:** 1. **Excessive Work Hours:** Expect to sacrifice your personal time with an overwhelming workload and late-night calls becoming the norm, with little regard for work-life balance. 2. **Stifling Micromanagement:** The constant micromanagement from supervisors creates a toxic atmosphere, leaving employees feeling undervalued and suffocated rather than empowered. 3. **Unacknowledged Effort:** Despite relentless dedication, hard work goes unrecognized, leading to frustration and a sense of futility. 4. **Poor Communication:** Lack of clear and supportive communication from higher-ups exacerbates workplace stress and hampers productivity. 5. **High Turnover and Burnout:** The demanding environment contributes to high employee turnover and burnout, making it difficult to build long-term career stability. 6. **Limited Growth for Hard Workers:** Even if you go above and beyond, opportunities for advancement can be limited, with career progression often feeling stagnant despite significant effort.

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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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Salesforce Response
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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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