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Demo Engineering Team: Not a place for a technical person

Demo Engineering Team
Former Employee
Worked at Salesforce for less than 1 year
February 26, 2019
2.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Good employee benefits Good company culture Nice office space

Cons

The demo engineering team is not a place to waste your career if you want to grow in a technical line. Managers ask for feedback once in a while but get really pissed off if they don’t like it.

Recently, after a decade, they realized that they need to provide some flexibility to the employees.

Many internal complaints were raised against the micromanagement, but nothing really happened.

There are two managers in the team when there is not even two hours of work in a day for even one manager. This leads to a lot of micromanagement as they do not have work to keep them busy.

Managers in the team do not respect individual time. They force meetings that don't even make sense for most of the team.

Communication classes that were conducted internally were a waste of time, money, and resources for the company. The external instructor, being a friend of the manager, used to discuss individual goals and attend performance review meetings. He knew more about the team than the team knew (who resigned, who is getting a promotion, etc.). Seriously, no respect for ethics.

Advice to Management

Do not trust hearsay, but work on internal complaints and internal survey results.

Conduct secret one-on-one meetings with individuals in the team to understand their issues.

Do not include the India HR team in any feedback discussions.

Check how many employees left in the last 2-3 years, and you will understand that there is a problem.

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