Salesforce reviews

A lot has gone wrong lately at Salesforce.com. I will list a few: * Acquisitions left and right are not very motivating for the employees as they are now just becoming integration agents rather than innovating anything that they can be proud of. * Don't believe the Gartner report or Forbes Most Innovative company award. Innovation is at it lowest point in the company ever. Most people in R&D are completely disassociated with the product they are building. Forget about innovation, they don't even understand the customer needs well enough. * Salesforce is now like a giant Sloth. Things that used to get done in a week now take over a year. Rapid hiring to improve the speed has helped in the past but hiring more people, especially in R&D isn't valuable anymore. * Most old-timers in R&D have left including both executives and engineers. New executives hired in R&D are kinda old-school Oracle/EMC guys who don't even know what Salesforce used to be. Culture has changed beyond repair. Result: No innovation, not much accountability, politics, bunch of process that no one needs but no one dares to change. * Ancient technologies, monolithic giant code base that no one really understands now. No unit testing, everything is tested through functional blackbox testing; you can change something that can result in something completely unrelated broken; Developer productivity is at the lowest that I have ever seen in my career. Think about it this way - You code for a day and fix test failures for next 5 days. Not rewarding at all. * Big initiatives always keep coming in a top-down way. More than half of them end up nowhere.

incredibly political; upper management shouts a lot; most managers are terrifed to even speak. promotions are based on who you know and how loud you shout rather than how talented you are. very toxic working environment. tremendous focus on the sales automation side, with a bizarre model of hiring more and more salespeople to flog the product, guaranteeing individual salespeople's revenue will be lower; they then fire the lower 10% of all salespeople every three months, so turnover is high and morale is in the toilet. 4000 employees but only 150 engineers; very sales heavy.