Salesforce reviews

Despite not wanting to acknowledge this fact, Salesforce is an incredibly political company to progress in. There is a heavy process around advancement, the main activity being developing your own brand. This involves gaining sponsors at various levels and promoting yourself (sometimes unashamedly) heavily throughout the business. This 'brand campaigning' is by definition political. It is also biased towards those that have the time to commit to it. It is largely dependant on a full and present management chain and those who are actually fully active making a difference at their customers, or who are under resourced and performing multiple roles to serve their customer, do not get the chance to 'seize the opportunity that Salesforce states that it presents. The result is that the talent in the business feel undervalued and the promotions go to the people who have shouted the loudest. It is a real shame, Salesforce isn't the company that I wanted it to be.

It's still a tech company in the Bay Area, and though there are many initiatives to promote diversity in place, it can still feel very white, male dominated and leave employees who belong to a minority fending for themselves when it comes to social interactions and handling a constant stream of micro aggressions. Favoritism and cliques are just another part of day-to-day life here and it makes it hard to not be concerned about how these factors may impact your hard work as well as your ability to be fairly promoted. Also the fact that the entire branding of the company has basically appropriated Hawaiian culture is beyond problematic. The actual look of this is slowly going away as each office is getting remodeled to look more like the new tower, but let's be careful about how we enable entitled, white individuals to take on a term like "Ohana" and throw it around as mere corporate culture fodder.