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79% would recommend to a friend

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Marc Benioff

79% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Salesforce has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 22,545 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Salesforce employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Jun 1, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

SFDC has a good name, good training, pays really well, great health plans, vacation, benefits etc. Great products, some really talented people, and clients come to you. If you can get into Enterprise sales with the right RVP, you will be golden. Get into Enterprise that is where its at here at SFDC.

Cons

Political, corporate, RVP's can make or break you, accounts get re-shuffled every now and then, territories shrink, you are only as good as your accounts. There are Re-Org's where, leadership, accounts, support, and resources ALL change. For Example: SMB, MM, and Commercial Account groups- unless you are on the high-end (New people and leadership there too) you are subject to a "Sweat-Shop" style of work, It never stops there...for even the most senior sales people. They push you down, to a lower level them where you are, and make you earn getting back to where you were. A lot of smoke and mirrors, there was a Re-Org and I know if at least 10 people who left SFDC because of it. They are hiring and growing way to fast. Becoming just like the company that they make fun of all the time "Oracle". It's become a political and very corporate "Suit Type's" environment. It's a good old boy's club in NYC, and the talent is not that great. (All the talent is in Field Sales, and a few in Commercial here and there) Management is really corporate, and not that talented, picks who makes it and who dosent. IE: Backgrounds from Paychex and ADP, other payment companies, I mean, come on. All follow each-other, super cut-throat, and competitive, and not in a good way.

1.0
Jul 15, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Location of head office is great. You will learn how to work in political work place. You might learn new technologies depending on the team.

Cons

You will spend 33 hours a week in meetings and then you will have nights and weekends to finish project, You will have manager that will lie to your face. You will be surrounded by incompetent people that make decisions impacting your career. You will not have career path at all.

2.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Location, location, location. You just can't beat the views. Some really great people are there, and it's technology focused.

Cons

Oh how to list these. Senior Management needs to stop worshiping itself and actually run the company and stop being a yes man to Marc B. If he farts, they say, oh Marc, it smells like Teen Spirit. No, honestly, that idea doesn't stink at all. Marketing is a sink hole of money at salesforce. They've pretty much promoted the CMO from within, when others wouldn't come aboard to run the department. While I was there, all they managed to hire was a slew of VP's and Directors into marketing. So for marketing, I would say it's very, very top heavy, with no one to do the actual work. They have this thing called a V2MOM that should be eliminated. No one follows it, no one understands it, and how can you follow it when it changes all the time.

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