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Great company, excellent benefits, and full of smart people

Software Engineering Manager
Current Employee
Has worked at Salesforce for less than 1 year
March 20, 2015
San Francisco, California
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Tremendous brand and work is put into it. Sales and marketing at this company is top-notch. Product Management is also very good.

Benefits are outstanding and work/life balance is great for experienced people with families, which can be rare in the Bay Area. Salesforce truly cares about developing and empowering its employees.

Cons

Politics are rampant in many groups. Management often has its hands tied when making personnel decisions and eliminating poor performers or toxic individuals.

Not an engineering or design-focused culture, but one that is focused more on marketing and sales. The products reflect this, as they are layered with features and customizations designed to make sales. Anyone with a design or engineering focus will find the products uninspiring.

Advice to Management

Continue working on improving the culture and find ways to make it easier for management to eliminate problem employees.

Empower your product managers and engineers more to keep the innovation going and avoid having to innovate entirely through acquisitions.

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