Slack reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(1,096 total reviews)
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Stewart Butterfield

88% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Slack has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,096 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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5.0
Aug 21, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- Slack is an amazing company that cares for people and customers. - CEO, CTO and all other executives are awesome. They always take care of the employees. Especially during COVID19 crisis, all executives showed a great character, allowed employees to settle down and adjust to the new situation and made sure work-life balance is maintained even when people are always staying at home. - Some perks offered during COVID19 crisis : Flexible working hours, $1000 stipend to buy WFH equipments, special time off for emergencies and permanent (optional) remote work.

Cons

Stiff competition from Microsoft Teams.

5.0
Aug 20, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

People oriented culture ! Engineers love it here - great challenging problems to work on and full autonomy to make and drive decisions.

Cons

Growing pains with hiring and ideal org structure. This is more of a first world good problem to have. I have full confidence in exec leadership to make the right adjustments in the coming years.

5.0
Aug 20, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

• The people - This is what attracted me to the company initially and it's what's kept me here for almost 6 years. Collaboration skills are considered crucial, and toxic lone wolves don't last long • The product - It's really fulfilling to work on something that so many people use and rely on. • Strong commitment to diversity and belonging, since the earliest days of the company - This is something that everyone cares about, from the CEO on down. There will always be work to do here, but we're doing it with a deep-seeded cultural commitment • Hard problems to solve - In Engineering, there is so much work to be done. We're reaching levels of scale that require novel solutions; off-the-shelf approaches won't work. Add to that adoption by the largest companies in the world, distributed across the globe, and it makes for some meaty projects

Cons

• If you aren't aligned with the culture, you will probably have a tough time here. Read the @SlackHQ Twitter account or slack.engineering blog to see some examples of the culture. If that's not for you, then it will be an uphill fight to find happiness here • It's a crucial service for most of our customers, so if something happens to impact that, it's priority number one to fix it. If you don't like being on pager rotation occasionally, steer clear • You can probably get higher base salaries elsewhere. If you don't think the stock has a lot of upside, then the numbers probably won't look that good to you.

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