Slack Software Developer reviews

4.6

99% would recommend to a friend

(61 total reviews)
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Stewart Butterfield

99% approve of CEO

88% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Slack with 4.6 out of 5 stars, based on 61 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 IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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61 reviews
5.0
Nov 9, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The culture is super supportive and everyone is so nice! Most people genuinely care about the product and what they are working on. Many projects are bottom up instead of top down, it's a great place to learn and grow.

Cons

Being too nice could cause indirect communication and lacking of constructive feedback.

2.0
Sep 4, 2018

Growing Pains

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits Salary Commute Building Food Talent

Cons

The company hierarchical. Management does not listen to or take their employees seriously. Folks draw a circle around their responsibilities to minimize liability. The company smokes their own product, meaning that they are great because they believe they are great. Management is green and has no clue how to deal with friction within the team or how to motivate people. The product has serious issues, but if you bring them up along with possible solutions, you manager will not be happy and tell you that these issues are not our concern because a different team is responsible for the feature in question. There is no sense of urgency. The company is very successful, but resting on your laurels is an invitation to competitors to eat your lunch. The product does not scale well on the server-side. The word "proactive" is not in anybody's dictionary. We're all waiting for fires to fight. Teams are poorly organized. Instead of forming small two or three person teams to implement a feature, some people are assigned massive tasks while others are given small tasks that have to be stretched out to make an appearance of effort. Some teams can have three or four managers in the span of a single year.

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