Great Culture with growing pains+competion - Staff Engineer Slack Employee Review

4.0
13 Oct 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Great Work Life Balance. This company walks the talk and it comes right from the top. - Great teamwork and collaboration - Ability to work on an enterprise product that isn't boring and that you can easily explain to friends and family - Good benefits and compensation(almost on par with Facebook & Google)

Cons

- Not all teams are equal. Some teams are doing top notch front-facing work while others are just maintaining/adding incremental features. But you at least have the flexibility to change teams every 6 months. - Management is a little reluctant to make more bolder/wide bets and likes sticking to safe plays. A little out of the box thinking could go a long way especially given the competition. - Microsoft Teams continues to be the biggest threat to the future but the company is still winning on it's own with recent big deals with Amazon, Verizon, etc - Obviously the company is still trying to get in the good books of Wall Street with the stock not really benefiting from the pandemic uncertainty unlike it's peers like Zoom, DocuSign, etc in spite of having in line revenues.

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Slack Response
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Thanks for your feedback. Here at Slack, we strive to provide the best perks and benefits for our employees to thrive--so we’re so glad to hear that you’re happy in that regard! Regarding your concern about work distribution across teams: we would suggest reaching out to your manager and department people partner to discuss this matter with them further. Thanks again for your thoughts!

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