Salesforce

Hands down best company I have ever worked for. Looking forward to the next few years!

Best job I’ve ever had. I’ve worked at 12 other tech companies in the past 35 years. Salesforce is the only one who didn’t just pay lip service when it comes to equal pay, diversity, and a supportive culture.

As usual the SFDC army of positive review trolls is out in full force. They are really on top of their
PR. Don’t believe it, it’s all part of the well paid PR strategy.

The women I worked with and talked to are all still suffering or left already.

Had a pretty traumatic experience working for Salesforce. In my cloud there were no women in leadership positions. Just look up the org chart. The are multiple such orgs in the company where there are either no women at all or a couple token women. Women are basically there to do all the janitorial work but don’t get to run anything. Barely get hired and seldom promoted. The sort of flagrant disrespect towards competent women is nauseating so they all leave.

Hard working women who spent years at SFDC are under-leveled. You can’t make a claim that the pay is fair if your promotion velocity for women is different than men. There’s the white guy promo bar and then there’s one for women which is much higher. Only white or Indian men get promoted. It’s disgusting, not to mention needlessly aggressive. Sure there’s the exception of a few women but they are so rare and don’t make up for the fact that the company is systematically sexist.

Lots of busy work while the product is shoddy. After all the company only ships 3x per year. This is not a tech company.

If you want a stable job with good benefits then yes Salesforce is the company for you. Stay for the abuse they won’t fire you. If however you’re ambitious and look for career growth and expect promotion for your work you’re out of luck unless you’re a dude.

Hands down best company I have ever worked for. Looking forward to the next few years!

I work in the IT department at Salesforce as a product manager for internal solutions, and have seen one promotion in the three years I’ve been on my team and am working with my direct manager (female) and her manager (male) on positioning my next promotion. The IT group is very in tune with a positive and equal work environment with regards to gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, etc. Folks are encouraged and supported to take time off for vacation, paternity leave, bereavement, or just to care for their kids and family whenever needed. While the IT community is very strong, the broader Salesforce community across the company also is very focused on Ohana (family). Salesforce is a great place to work!

Salesforce does a lot to keep it’s employees happy. Why I have been there for 4 years and no plans on leaving anytime soon!

Salesforce is a great place for people in UX to start their careers. There is enough structure to keep projects moving forward, and the process is flexible enough that there are opportunities to try something new.

I’ve experienced plenty of unconscious bias, but never conscious nepotism or maliciousness. Leadership should strive to practice what they preach, but at least they are preaching- and trying to practice- equality and inclusiveness.

There is a big focus on equal pay and this has happily become part of the annual review process. I personally received an 10% pay increase because of a gender imbalance.

Work is challenging and hours can be long, but the career opportunities are great. Still a lot of ‘old boy’s network’, but there is awareness and an ability to call it out.

As a mother at Salesforce, I feel very supported and have been able to work to my own schedule. There is a preference that people come to the office, but this is changing over time, mainly driven by high growth and limited office space.

Salesforce is becoming more and more family friendly in leave entitlements, flexibility, ‘bring you kids to work’ events and a general ‘family-first’ mentality

Salesforce is a very good at promoting a positive inclusive brand but the reality could not be more different, recognition and promotion go to the chosen few who whilst completely incapable are extremely good at promoting themselves, politically aligned and extremely low from an EQ perspective. Senior leaders who’s behaviours are completely contrary to the companies values are held in high esteem, the rules change depending on who you are. Never have I worked at a place where I felt so isolated, discriminated against lets not mention the psychological bullying you have to endure.

I worked at Salesforce.com a few years ago so culture might have changed since then. It’s impossible to rate equal pay. I don’t know what my peers made, but I was in sales, so I assume it was equal.

Career Advancement was a huge disappointment. I was in the same role for 5 years and was looking for something new. I was very successful in my role, and felt justified in asking for either a promotion or a lateral move to something else. I just wanted a change in what I was doing, not necessarily to change companies. It was a hard no. I remember my AVP saying “we hired you for this position. This is your job”. But it had been five years and there was zero interest in career development. I will add there were no female managers in my region at the time. The same AVP kept hiring his male friends from the outside to fill management roles as they opened up.

I did like the overall culture though. We were always encouraged to think bigger than ourselves by serving our local communities and thinking globally about how to change the world for the better.

I believe that if I had a supportive AVP who was vested in my personal career development, I’d still be there today. I suspect the attitude inside Salesforce is still similar – there are dozens of people who want your job. They believe if you don’t want it, someone else, just as qualified will take it.

I was apart of an acquisition. One that I would say was not a cultural fit. There is a lot of Kool-aid to drink at Salesforce and not a lot behind it.

It is hard to say this is a TECH company when it is clearly a SALES driven organization. My group was pre-sale and all of our metrics were sales focused. I felt it was hard to get clear answers or understanding of our role. Often it felt we were tricking our customers into a sale.

It also feels a bit like a trickle down culture. The people at the bottom of the pyramid are the ones doing the work. The quality of the work doesn’t matter as long as it sells “seats”. There are a good chuck of employees at salesforce that are not worth their weight or like to take credit for the work of others.

The benefits of Salesforce are the benefits. They are progressive in their policies with great healthcare, leave and charity opportunities.

It’s been several years since my employment with Salesforce (2012-2014). I took a pay cut in base salary from my tenured tech Sales job to join Salesforce, though justified it as an opportunity to open new doors. I was unable to successfully establish a career and compensation that was worth staying at Salesforce.

My experience with the SMB Sales team was a mixture of fun team dynamic with growth opportunities requiring a need to make your personal ‘brand’ known for consideration. The benefits keep people happy and some have stayed for many years in the sales organization, moving into higher roles. However, this was not my path. I was not satisfied with the regular reassignment of new team managers, shuffling of account relationships every fiscal year, and cherry picking of saturated account territories (with the ‘patch’ being ‘stacked’ more favorably for some and diminished for those that are to be ‘weeded out’… all while claiming ‘fairness’ from ‘system’s territory’ algorithm). The second manager I was assigned to was exposed (through his direct actions) to be having an extra marital affair with one of the Sales AE’s which was a red flag for the acceptable corporate culture.

I quickly recognized that while Salesforce boasts to be such a great place to work, that this was not a place I want to build my career relations, and I warned outside interest to be cautious when choosing to make a move to SFDC. The leadership is mediocre in transparency and offers minimal support with movement among teams.

I hope that there is much improvement since then though I can confidently say that SFDC is not a place I personally would return for work.

Hands down the best workplace in my 35 year career. Salesforce values diversity, equality and inclusion and those values are visible every day.

Difficult to judge about equal pay, for this I would need to know the salary of other persons…

Career advancement was not really possible in Swiss office as it is a small office with few departments.

I don’t have kids so difficult to judge about the las point.

I can say that generally speaking, it was the best company I have worked so far 🙂

Overall it’s great place to work. I have been involved with Salesforce about 10 years ago. Since then the company grew exponentially. I can only give feedback based on my experience 10 years ago. Equal Pay – not sure, most likely. Career Advancement – it’s very political place, so it depends on the group and immediate manager.
Supportive culture is similar to career advancement – some groups are very open and some groups are extremely political and people afraid even to speak up.
Family Friendly – for sure all HR related items, e.g. benefits, family leave, discounts, gifts, were the best compared to any other place that I have worked

Great products and technology. Unfortunately the management cultures is extremely bad. You got promoted because you are the favourite and you know how to play politics. Performance is irrelevant to your promotion. They also imported a big gang of Americans into Australia using 475 visa ,then let go the local Aussies. These Americans have no special skills at all.
The turn over is extremely high. Great products, bad cultures, what a shame!

I worked for Salesforce for several years. I do not question Marc’s intent or personal beliefs. I have however been organizationally discriminated against. Salesforce is still an old world boys club, and focuses on hierarchy. This makes it hard to open it up to supporting women. Women who have been there a long time, also heeded warning of special behaviors that will help you get promoted. “Dress up, do your hair every day, wear makeup”.

I, and other women employees there spent days / nights crying about the sexual discrimination. We confided in each other and eventually left for greener pastures. I, and others are so glad we’re not there anymore.

Sales organization review in SF: work-life balance is pretty much non-existent if you do not live in SF. You are not allowed to work from home (pretty much ever) and you are expected to be in
the office before or at 8 and until at least 5 every single day (even Friday). This is fine for most, however, if you have to commute, or you have kids to pick up, the lack of flexibility is really taxing and for me was just not sustainable.

Salesforce says it eliminated the pay gap and is working to be completely equal for all, however, very few high ranking leaders are women. Maybe that is due to merit earned, maybe not. I do know that the women who were successful at Salesforce were given a lot of respect and praise. Hopefully, the leadership teams will become more diverse (in gender, ethnicity, and sexuality).

One thing to call out is the maternity/paternity leave policy- it’s pretty hard to beat. They also have a lot of great discounts and additional benefits to take advantage of (adoption assistance, paying for a portion of having your eggs frozen.. really amazing).

Overall, Salesforce is an amazing company, but you need to understand that part of their success is dependent on the fact that each employee pretty much does the job of about 2.5 people. If you are okay with this, it’s a great option!

Salesforce is a fantastic company for women and families. Recently, Marc Benoit became one of the first CEOs to publicly proclaim that his company would evaluate how Salesforce pays women and make sure that their salaries are equal to men’s. And he did it. He raised the salaries of women across the company.

Salesforce supports families with excellent maternity, paternity, and adoption leave policies, childcare assistance programs, and mother’s rooms in every building.

Teams are incredibly diverse (especially for tech). Many of the teams I’ve worked on in the engineering department have been more than 50% female and a majority non-white. Salesforce also has a rich culture of philanthropy and supporting vulnerable populations and communities.

Honestly, I can’t say enough good things about how Salesforce supports its employees. They’re setting the standard for the industry.