Salesforce reviews

Where do I start? In 20 years of being in the workforce, I've never worked in such an unsupportive, demoralizing, cutthroat environment. I compare working at salesforce to being a member of Congress. In other words, you're not expected or encouraged to perform your job to the best of your ability; rather, you're expected and encouraged to be constantly campaigning for your next position by contributing to only high-profile projects that get the attention of the higher-ups...and then tooting your own horn at every opportunity. Thus, you have a lot of people jockeying to be part of the "prestige" projects while the nitty-gritty yet necessary work gets ignored. And as with politics, there's very little trust and rapport among employees. I always theorized that many salesforce employees suspect that their titles and salaries are disproportionately elevated in relation to their skills and experience and therefore engage in a lot of "smoke and mirror" tactics to keep from being exposed: taking credit when they shouldn't, not taking responsibility when they should, and throwing anyone and everyone under the bus at the slightest provocation. In recent months, there's been an ongoing campaign to "trim the ranks," so they've been covertly laying people off under the guise of "eliminating positions." Not surprisingly, they've also been losing a lot of their most valued employees, who witnessed their colleagues mysteriously disappearing and, sensing an unstable and inhospitable work environment, decided to leave on their own accord. I also hear that morale is at an all-time low. Shocker.

Pay leaves a lot to be desired. There is very little training and development in place within certain orgs, so you need to be self-sufficient. There are a million levels of middle management, so everyone is a VP of something, and nobody is good at their job. People in all levels of management within certain orgs are completely incompetent. The Peter Principle is how it is best described. Everyone there thinks that because they work there, their (blank) doesn't stink. The arrogance is obnoxious. If you ever need help with anything, don't expect to get helpful answers from anyone. Plan on searching internal systems and learning on your own. Forget product training. Better use Google and YouTube. Managers are not your friends, nor are the other employees. If you say something to someone, trust that everyone will know, so keep it related to work. The people there are only in it for themselves and will happily stab anyone in the back to get what they want. If you aren't in the inner sanctum, you will feel like an outsider. Very clicky environment.