Is Slack a good company to work for as a Senior Software Developer?

Senior Software Developer professionals working at Slack have rated their employer with 4.0 out of 5 stars in 50 Glassdoor reviews. This is an average score with the overall rating of Slack employees being 4.0 out of 5 stars. Search open Senior Software Developer Jobs at Slack now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Senior Software Developer interview questions at Slack .

Does Slack pay Senior Software Developer employees well?

Senior Software Developer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Slack with 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 50 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 4.7% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Senior Software Developer salaries and benefits at Slack .

How happy are Senior Software Developer professionals working at Slack?

74% of Senior Software Developer employees at Slack would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has decreased by 16% in the past 12 months. Senior Software Developer professionals have also rated Slack with a 4.5 rating for work-life-balance, 4.7 rating for diversity and inclusion, 4.0 rating for culture and values and 3.7 rating for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Slack?

Account Executive (95) , 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 197 reviews)); "SFDC offers great benefits and salarys..." ((in 105 reviews)); "The work/life balance is great (work hard and go home)" ((in 76 reviews)); "The team is great and smart" ((in 56 reviews)); "• Great leadership that truly is customer centric" ((in 45 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)); "Many layoffs." ((in 9 reviews)); "Lack of diversity in sales teams now that Salesforce leadership has taken over." ((in 7 reviews)); "No career opportunities." ((in 5 reviews))

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Slack Senior Software Developer reviews

4.0

74% would recommend to a friend

(50 total reviews)

Stewart Butterfield

57% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.7

Diversity & inclusion

4.5

Work/Life balance

4.4

Compensation and benefits

4.0

Culture & values

3.7

Career opportunities

2.7

Senior management

Senior Software Developer employees have rated Slack with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 50 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Slack is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0

Sep 18, 2019

Slack is great, parts of the codebase are not

Senior software engineer

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Pros

My favorite thing about Slack is the folks I get to work with. My team is amazing and I love being surrounded by such a smart and diverse group of people. Leadership gets a lot of things right, the benefits are amazing, and work life balance is much better than a lot of other places I've been.

Cons

The biggest quality of life issue is the relatively fragile and monolithic codebase. I'm lucky enough to spend my time working out of the monolith, but it's there and it's big and it leads to incidents. We do have a healthy culture around incidents (postmortems, etc) but life would be better if we reduced the amount of time we spent on them.

5.0

Sep 18, 2019

Great place to work

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Interesting problems to solve. Smart, fun, caring coworkers. Overall the most transparent place I've worked. Focused on increasing diversity. Good perks and compensation. Feel empowered to try new things and make changes.

Cons

The company is getting quite big so sometimes getting things done can take a while (compared to a startup). Being in a remote office sometimes makes it hard to feel like part of the rest of the greater company, however, over the short time I've been here so far, it's gotten better! The review process doesn't seem consistent across engineering which can make it hard for people to all feel like they are getting and able to provide useful feedback.

5.0

Sep 11, 2019

Great place to work in a highly collaborative environment

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Everyone here is very friendly and easy to work with - Avocados, Fresh Fruits, Fully stock frig and snacks available - Work life balance is something they care about here. You come to work and get your work done and then you can focus on your life.

Cons

- Getting bigger and with that you have some growing pains. Some needed change and process needs to change to adapt to how big Slack is getting. There's a bit of tension between a few folks and things can be more aligned across the company in terms of certain process and decisions. The good thing is I know there are people are working on it so hopefully it's keeps getting better.

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