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Company cares more about DEI than actual quality

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Slack for 6 years
September 26, 2024
1.0
Doesn't Recommend
Pros

If you don’t care, most employees and managers don’t care either. Since the merger, rest and vest is a way of life.

Cons

If you are actually a qualified employee who values work ethic, steer clear. They promote DEI above everything else. If your colleague is part of that collect them all set, then their career is set even if their abilities are two levels below where their title says they should be.

Females made up 25% of the engineering force, but 50% of promotions one year. If you were not DEI, they didn’t even consider you.

Basically, if you are looking to work with the best and brightest people you ever will in your career… steer clear, and you will be sadly disappointed.

Advice to Management

Stop coddling employees; most of them just complain about everything in their own private channel like children. And hire some real veterans, not the so-called veterans who just made all the mistakes at other startups.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
4.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
1.0
Career Opportunities
2.0
Compensation and Benefits
4.0
Senior Management
1.0

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