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Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Salesforce for 2 years
March 30, 2017
San Francisco, California
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Brand name.

Ok, benefits and salary.

Voluntary Time Off.

Cons

Too much annoying bureaucracy. Your tenure at the company dictates how valuable your ideas are instead of their merit.

Huge technical debt and an age-old technical stack. Code takes a few hours to compile and is terrible. Most of the developers are fresh grads or have been with the company for an extensive period of time.

Engineering executives are non-technical but have been with the company for a long time.

Lots of QA folks have been promoted to Director and Sr. Directors as they did a good job buttering up the executives. Too much title inflation in Product and Engineering.

Hectic work-life balance in San Francisco HQ. Changes in product direction and reorgs happen almost every few weeks.

Mediocre developers keep on changing groups in the Open Opportunity Market and still survive.

Advice to Management

Fire the bootlegger engineering executives who have been here for more than five years.

Most of these are C players and are causing A players to leave.

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