Salesforce

Compensation is probably competitive.

Benefits are standard for large tech companies of this size.

Company makes efforts to promote employee well-being, hiring, inclusion, and social justice.

• The company is manically sales-driven to the point of fantasizing that engineers will be hitting people up in elevators to sell them on Salesforce, and requiring them to train for that. • There are long, rambling, sales-oriented, rah-rah company meetings. • There are too many levels of hierarchy and too much churn among executives. • There are overbearing processes that can’t be tailored to specific team’s situations.

Please stop: Long, talk-show panel-style “all-hands” meetings; marketing/management/cool (not) jargon; fantasizing that engineers are going to be selling Salesforce products in elevators.

Development at Salesforce is not “agile“ and cannot be agile given the environment. It’s maddening to be subjected to constant pressure to conform to the agile dogma in rituals and processes while being undercut by reality.