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Good Balance, Referral Hurdle

Database Administrator
Former Employee
Worked at Salesforce for less than 1 year
March 7, 2016
Singapore, Singapore
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Good work-life balance and compensation. Excellent benefits.

Team bonding and outings.

Internal geographical movement.

Cons

Anyone can only be selected if you have any referral candidates from internal employees within the team.

Example: There are 4 interviewers in the DB team in Singapore. The first round will be conducted by the lead, which is a real and logical interview. The second round will be taken by any of the senior members in the team.

You will be able to shortlist for the second round only if you know anyone within that team, otherwise, they will simply reject you in the second round. For example, if person A refers someone and they are rejected in the first round, then whoever attends the interview in the second round, either one of the team members will reject you.

This has been happening for over a year.

Advice to Management

Please revise the interview method. I have seen many good resources rejected when I employed them. It's all internal politics. Even a few of the resources forced me to reject interviewees.

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