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      Slack

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      Slack Software Developer reviews

      4.6

      99% would recommend to a friend

      (60 total reviews)
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      Stewart Butterfield

      99% approve of CEO

      88% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.8

      Work/Life balance

      4.5

      Culture & values

      4.2

      Senior management

      4.2

      Career opportunities

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      Software Developer employees have rated Slack with 4.6 out of 5 stars, based on 60 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Slack 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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      60 reviews
      4.0
      Jul 3, 2020

      Generally great place to work!

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Thoughtful leadership, great people, lots of transparency for a public company

      Cons

      Inconsistent culture between teams and increasingly political environment. Rapidly changing priorities.

      3.0
      Jul 3, 2020

      Don't mess with the flow, just stick to the status quo!

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Good work/life balance - A reasonably interesting product with its own set of challenges - Beautiful offices in many different countries - Quality of design matters

      Cons

      - Easy to hide in the organizational shadows and do very little work - Over-sensitive culture infused with strong 'woke left' narratives and not afraid to push it in your face! - Status quo management and development culture.. repeat that week's popular phrase as stated by executives and you'll do well - Heavy in the management layers - Inappropriate leveling criteria for engineers, leading to low technical competence

      5.0
      Jun 25, 2020

      World Class Culture and Team

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Transparent leadership whose bottom line is _not_ to make a profit. I attribute a lot of the culture to Stewart. He is clearly very invested in social good initiatives (way before the pandemic started). For example, bringing in speakers to talk about racial justice initiatives, the last mile program, partnering with code2040, etc. The great part is that this culture attracts the best people! Folks that are incredibly kind and exemplify all of our values. Not only that, most if not all of the engineers are amazing technically. Technical leaders are very knowledgable and really level up their teams if not the entire org. There are also lots of opportunities to work on technical challenges.

      Cons

      The legacy codebase can be hard to work in sometimes, but it's getting better. The concentration of people of color and LGBTQ folks is not equal. Some teams are very diverse while others are not as much. The stock price is quite volatile, but trending upwards. We use Hack which no one really uses besides Facebook. Hard to find something as good for next job.

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