Jul 12, 2022
Slack
Part of Salesforce
Engaged Employer
Slack Engineering Manager reviews
4.6
91% would recommend to a friend
Stewart Butterfield
91% approve of CEO
89% positive business outlook
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6 reviews
1.0
Oct 14, 2020
Poor leadership holding back decent product
Current employee, more than 1 year
San Francisco, CA
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros
Overall, Slack has a good set of co-workers within Engineering. The product is decent, and contributes to helping people get work done as opposed to just making money off of ads.
Cons
There is no company direction. The product is stagnant, and the focus is primarily on getting more users as opposed to making a better product. No one, either in engineering or product management, can make a long term roadmap. We move from the crisis of today to the crisis of tomorrow. We constantly spread ourselves too thin.
5.0
Oct 13, 2020
Best Company I've Ever Worked For
Current employee, more than 1 year
San Francisco, CA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Overall, Slack is a wonderful place to work, to be an engineer, or to be an engineering manager. I've been lucky enough to be both an IC and an EM at Slack, and over the past two years I've worked with incredible colleagues. We're shipping a well loved product that's fun to use, and we're able to ship it without working crazy hours. Work life balance is great, and so are benefits. During the pandemic they've been giving everyone in the company 1 extra day off a month and it's just been wonderful.
Cons
If you don't have a manager invested in helping you grow your career, it's going to be a challenge to do it. The engineering promotion process is very manager driven, including packets written by the manager. If you don't have the proper support, it's tough to get promotions or switch from IC to EM. If you do, it's a great place to grow your career. On a day to day basis, there are still a number of things that cause engineers on my team pain in the codebase. Flaky tests are probably culprit number one. Code health has improved a lot in the past year, but there's still a ways to go.
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