Does Slack pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Slack employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Slack. This rating has improved by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Slack?

77% of Slack employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Slack 4.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.9 for culture and values and 3.7 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Slack?

Account Executive (94) , Software Engineer (63) , Senior Software Engineer (49) , Customer Experience Agent (28) , Senior Account Executive (26) , Enterprise Account Executive (23) , Customer Success Manager (21) , Manager (17) , Sales (17) , Staff Software Engineer (16) , Customer Experience (14) , Software Engineering Intern (14) , Director (12) , Recruiter (12) , Business Development Representative (BDR) (11)

What are the pros of working at Slack according to real employee reviews?

"Great culture and values!" ((in 192 reviews)); "Great benefits and all the resources you need to do well in sales here." ((in 113 reviews)); "Great work life balance (ex/ Fri" ((in 78 reviews)); "The team is great and smart" ((in 51 reviews)); "• Great leadership that truly is customer centric" ((in 46 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Slack according to real employee reviews?

"I had 3 managers (4 if you count the time I had no manager) over ~6 months." ((in 16 reviews)); "Impossibly fast change, questionable leadership decisions, product decisions feel half baked, absolutely enormous company with frequent layoffs." ((in 11 reviews)); "Lack of diversity in sales teams now that Salesforce leadership has taken over." ((in 6 reviews)); "No career opportunities." ((in 5 reviews)); "Upper management is amazing and is trying to promote a culture that no" ((in 3 reviews))

What are employees saying about Slack layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Slack layoffs and their outlook for job security at Slack in 2026.

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Slack reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(1,094 total reviews)

Stewart Butterfield

88% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.2

Diversity & inclusion

4.2

Work/Life balance

4.2

Compensation and benefits

3.9

Culture & values

3.7

Career opportunities

3.4

Senior management

Slack has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,094 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Slack 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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1K reviews

1.0

Jun 27, 2017

PLACE FOR IVY LEAGUE PASSOUTS

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

None, Don't apply for this place. you'll hate it here.

Cons

Everything, Can't live in California on the salary the provide. Stuck up start-up

Slack Response

Thank you for your feedback. We’re sorry that you had a negative experience at Slack. We wish you the best.

1.0

May 23, 2022

Beware - Positive reviews are from employees that steer clear of the executive team

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Lots of great, smart, hard working people at Slack. - Work on a product enterprise software users enjoy. - Competitive compensation plans.

Cons

- Very bad behaviour at the executive level (including CEO verbally assaulting employees in public Slack channels). - Highly political environment. The highest I've seen in Silicon Valley. (But people don't talk about it out of fear.) - No upward mobility (see highly political environment). - HR is there to protect executives/founders, not employees (but that's common). - High turnover in eng/product/design due to toxic work environment (so you will spend a lot of time interviewing to add to your team)

3.0

Nov 13, 2018

Customer Experience

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

• Slack does Customer Experience right! We have a lot of freedom to do what is best for our users. This is a gem in the world of Customer Experience. • Great team and atmosphere, I work with a great lot of people, everyone's giving it 100%. • High-profile company, the product is amazing, and the benefits are very competitive.

Cons

• Don't be fooled by the no-blame, no-ego, we're-all-in-this-together approach. There is politics, like everywhere else. • The people at the very top of Customer Experience are control freaks. Their baby is growing up and they're having a hard time letting to. They are not receptive to disagreement, they get involved at a level they should not be and consistently undermine our managers. They don't know how to manage more structured organisation (or people it seems) and it can get messy and confusing.

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