Salesforce Software Developer reviews

3.9

83% would recommend to a friend

(518 total reviews)
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Marc Benioff

83% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Salesforce with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 518 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Salesforce is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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518 reviews
1.0
Oct 3, 2018
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Pros

there are really none except compensation

Cons

terrible location to commute to. we came through a buy out. first year was good. second year was bad. All top people of my startup were forced out after less then 2 years. we were given crap tasks to do after a year with tons of politics and terrible management. Management changes by the minute.

1.0
Aug 23, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

* really nice people to work with * lots of opportunities to learn * nice benefits * good life/work balance * good working space

Cons

* employees are not valued I was offered a full time position (6 months in advance before the start date) after having completed a 4 months internship but they ended the contract 2 weeks before starting as they decided to relocate the team to another country. Because of that, I need to mention they ended the contract of other 20 people the were working in the team. (all had to look for a new job) They only offered 1 month salary as compensation nothing more. I have already paid for a new accommodation where I was a guarantor for other 2 people. I brought proof. They didn't care. And this is how people end up in the streets (unless you can find a job in one week or own some savings) So much of the OHANA spirit they are so proud of!

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Salesforce Response
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Thank you for your feedback on the recent restructuring of one of our teams in the UK. Restructuring teams is never easy, but we remain committed to doing the best we possibly can by our employees. When restructuring happens, we always look for other opportunities within the organization, and in this case are working with the employees involved to find other opportunities within London, in addition to offering one month salary and reimbursement of costs associated with a move to London (such as lodging and flights). Please reach out to me directly, if you would like to further discuss your feedback, or if there is anything I can personally do to help.
3.0
May 11, 2018
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Pros

Great company culture. Good work life balance. Smart developers with good problem solving skills. Great career growth opportunities. Planning of work is better than most other companies that I have come across.

Cons

Hybrid Engineering has pros and cons. However, in Indy, the strategy for hybrid transition is causing a significant loss in engineering productivity. First, Pros: 1.) Hybrid engineering has brought more focus on using contemporary tools for automated testing. 2.) This helps in improving system reliability and make developers better at their jobs since testing is not considered an afterthought anymore. 3.) Huge investment in automated testing upfront is a good overall strategy that will help in system scalability and reduce buggy software releases. Cons: 1.) The idea for depending more on automated testing than on manual testing has translated into demanding all manual / semi manual qa testers to learn how to code. 2.) This is the strategy that has not panned out at all. While, the self help tools like online courses, mentoring resources and in-team guidance have been a proactive ongoing effort, this approach is taking massive hits on productivity for developers as well as for testers all around. 3.) You can find developers on any given day spending quite a bit of time (hours at times) going over basic step by step process (over and over again) with the testers to resolve minority non-mission critical bugs. 4.) Testers, especially who are not from a programming background / havent coded in a while, are overwhelmed and stressed out about the tickets they have to complete each sprint. 5.) For a company that champions engineering productivity and no interruption time for developers, developers are spending less time on quality features/innovative/disruptive work and more time getting bogged down by the process+manual testing+ incremental work . Dont get me wrong, the notion of ohana is embedded deep in the organization and engineers are glad to help their peers anytime. However, this is a massive hit on productivity.

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