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Stay clear of Salesforce Dublin for Engineering

Software Engineer (Senior Member of Technical Staff)
Former Employee
Worked at Salesforce for 1 year
July 14, 2016
Dublin, Leinster
5.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Seriously great corporate culture and values.

A sea of opportunities to learn.

Salesforce as a corporation is amazing. They have emphasis and enablement towards volunteering. Something I wish all companies would take from them.

I am giving the company 5 stars despite the headline and huge list of cons. I just want to warn any bright person out there not to be sold on the brand name.

Also, it's a great place if you are in Sales and Marketing. There's a lot going around.

Cons

Only meant for Dublin office.

Don't mistake it for real Salesforce.

There's an almost negligible engineering presence. There's very little to share and learn for engineering and software development. All kinds of games are being played, as a small number of staff wants to push into management. There's a huge hierarchy, and it may be good on a global scale, but it doesn't quite make sense to have that in the Dublin office. Some people are stuck in monotonous work and see moving to management as their only way out, acting in poor spirit.

If you are looking for good work and a good team, don't bother. Join a startup instead. The current state of the Dublin office is worse than that. If it weren't for the larger organization holding it to a structure, the place would have been much more chaotic.

Advice to Management

Bring more transparency to places where management bandwidth seems too high. It would be good to introduce 360-degree feedback at such places.

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