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eNPS Score
Q&A With Salesforce Employees
At Salesforce, we've built a culture of trust. We keep our culture healthy and strong by being incredibly intentional about our Ohana, our values, our behaviors, and the experiences we deliver. Our culture makes us one of the most innovative, admired, and best places to work in the world.
How employees describe working at Salesforce
10/10 recommend Salesforce is second to none
Review from Marketing Dept
I came through an acquisition and am only still around at this point because the job market is poor.
Review from Engineering Dept
Being able to provide good work product
Review from IT Dept
Despite working hard for 6 years, and doing everything my leadership asks regarding getting promoted, I haven't and they hired someone over me with half my experience, but yet I was told that I didn't have enough "global", which was clearly outlined on my resume.
Review from Operations Dept
Generally it's been good. Some changes the last few yrs have made me feel less attached to the company (ex. laying off employees who were top performers, pushing return to office despite Marc spending 2 years during covid saying things would never go back to that, etc.).
Review from Sales Dept
What it's like to work at Salesforce
- Salesforce employees generally work 8.8 hrs a day
- Employees at Salesforce report the work pace is comfortably fast
- On a typical day, employees at Salesforce have 4+ meetings
- 91% of Salesforce employees look forward to interacting with their team every day
- Salesforce employees most often take unlimited paid vacation and sick days each year
- 76% of Salesforce employees report they are happy with their work life balance
- Salesforce employees typically get valuable feedback on how to improve at work Every Week
- 88% of Salesforce employees call their work environment positive
Q&A With Salesforce Employees
IDX: 0 TOT: 87
What is the best part about your compensation package at Salesforce?
Top Employee Response
Employee culture of Ohana: we support each other and the communities around us.
Salary and perks company provides
Comparable/Better to like roles at other software companies.
What do you like best about the leadership team at Salesforce?
Top Employee Response
Despithe lack of people who actually know things and willing to take ownership and responsibility my immediate team manages to get stuff don
Everyone manages up, those lower are often left to execute on the whims of out of touch execs
Flexible, realize that all problems cannot be solved in the same way.
How often do you have lunch away from your desk?
Top Employee Response
rarely. If you work outside of San Francisco, there is zero consideration for your schedule when others schedule meetings, or set expectations on your time.
i dont each lunch often but if i wanted to i could anytime
rarely. due to different timezones, mine always gets scheduled over. If you are outside of San Francisco, there is zero consideration when others schedule meetings and set expectations on your time.
What are some of the best things about your team at Salesforce?
Top Employee Response
Overall, people are great. There are some people that aren't so great, but the SF culture seems to smooth it out quickly.
Fun and bright people
Smart, fun, common goal
What makes you most happy at Salesforce?
Top Employee Response
Salesforce has truly made investments in my personal skills.
New challenging technology
Potential to help huge brands
How's the vacation policy at Salesforce?
Top Employee Response
There is a minimum of 15 days PTO every calendar year in addition to company holidays. There is an additional 5 discretionary days available to every employee. The 15 days is the minimum and increases as the employee's length of employment within Salesforce. The 15 days can be carried forward to the next year but the discretionary time off cannot be carried over. Also, on the engineering side of things, there is unlimited vacation policy from SMTS onwards. More Salesforce benefits information on the publicly available website "https://www.getsalesforcebenefits.com"
Excellent. Usually starting around 2-3 weeks a year and once you get to a senior title or higher it's unlimited. Although unlimited is crafty really and more of a money saver for the company than anything.
It's competitive with other similarly sized orgs. More details on benefits can be viewed here: http://www.getsalesforcebenefits.com/en/your-benefits/work-life/time-off-and-leaves
why do ppl usually leave your company?
Top Employee Response
Managers manage up, and leave engineers to act on their poorly defined whims. Most people I've seen have left due to frustrations and low morale.
In the san fransisco area, usually to go to start ups hoping they'll get lucky with equity. In my area (Washington D.C.) we have very low turnover, mostly in sales, because the government isn't really one of our biggest clients.
Salesforce is an amazing company and one of the best. Sometimes people leave because of a bad manager, Salesforce is a big company with mostly great leaders, but there are some toxic managers, so at the end it's really depend in which group you are.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at Salesforce?
Top Employee Response
Acceptance and tolerance of a diverse range of people throughout the team
We care about each other
Ohana spirit
What are you most excited about working at Salesforce?
Top Employee Response
Opportunities for professional growth and income potential.
Free coffees at the cafes.
Working with best people
How's the morale at Salesforce?
Top Employee Response
Very low if you are tech, but Sales groups it seems ok.
Overall it's very positive. People enjoy the company and the environment
Low to high, team-to-team
What's the interview process like at Salesforce?
moderately difficult, not as hard as google
Ridiculous. They force internal candidates to interview five or six times and to sit in panel interviews with up to ten people. Multiple VPs and Sr Directors are involved even in the lowest of positions.
Difficult but needs preparation
What do people at Salesforce think about the CEO? What do they do well and what can they improve?
Top Employee Response
People at Salesforce regard Marc as an outstanding leader and innovator. He continues to push the envelope for what our company can achieve all while creating a spirit of Ohana with employees.
He needs to clean house at the top.
It depends if you're in the mothership (San Francisco HQ) or not. Many there feel like he walks on water and can do no wrong. Those part of companies they've acquired and living in more sensible and pragmatic parts of the country/world tend to look upon Benioff and the Salesforce culture a bit more skeptically. They do a lot of things right but when you're a behemoth the size they are there are company culture pieces that fall by the wayside in the interest of the business.
What's the main reason people leave the company?
Top Employee Response
Company is not collaborative and is very political
Bad manager
Because they are disrespected by their management and the culture is toxic.
How often can you work remotely?
Top Employee Response
It depends on the manager. Mine was fine with me working remotely 20% of the time, but they were flexible around life events that required you to work remotely. It wasn't unusual for people to work remotely 3 days in a week if they didn't have things they needed to be in the office for.
a couple of days a week
A couple of days a week
How does Salesforce make decisions around promotions?
Top Employee Response
I would say partially based off of being able to produce. But having your wagon hitched to the right person and being able to do corporate BSing certainly will help your cause.
No one understands how promotions are decided - the process is clear and transparent, but the criteria needed for a promotion is not.
Not exactly sure. But I was promoted recently
If you could make changes, how would you improve the culture at Salesforce?
Top Employee Response
Increase internal communication within lines of business.
Culture is toxic and employees are disrespected. Change from the top down to promote a better work environment.
Live/practice what they claim, such as Ohana.
How's the work life balance at Salesforce?
Top Employee Response
Work like balance is a focus area for the company but it's difficult to be a rockstar here without exceeding a 45 hour work week.
Decent
Pretty good
What is the dress code at Salesforce?
Top Employee Response
Casual
No dress code
business casual to casual
Does Salesforce drug test or do a background check?
no drug test, but a background check
I believe "Yes" for background check, but not sure for drug test
no drug test, yes background check
What should I wear for an interview at Salesforce?
Casual dress is fine.
Suit
A little nicer than business casual.
What unique perks and benefits does Salesforce provide?
Unlimited/flex vacation
area discounts and memberships, time off to volunteer
Snacks, work from home, unlimited PTO, volunteer time, parental leave.
What's the office vibe like at Salesforce?
People are generally unhappy and people are stressed out at the office.
Not friendly
Nice offices but stand offish people
What benefits does Salesforce provide?
401(K), ESPP, medical/dental/vision insurance with HSA/FSA, discounts for couple of services and few other benefits.
Great medical!
Mediocre 401k, great healthcare and snacks
in your opinion, is the company slow or quick to make decisions and enact change?
Top Employee Response
very quick to make decisions, change and adaptability
Way too quick. They don't give anything thought. Let's just reorg again even though we just did 3 months ago.
Quick, perhaps too quick.
How many women are in your team? is it diverse enough?
Top Employee Response
In the IT portions it's maybe 2/3'rds men, with management and sales being 50/50
30%. I work in R&D on an engineering team.
its fairly diverse
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Should I work at Salesforce?
63% of Salesforce employees would encourage their friends to become coworkers, whereas 22% are neutral and 15% would not recommend working at Salesforce to their friends.
| 63% | Promoters |
|---|---|
| 22% | Passive |
| 15% | Detractors |
