Salesforce reviews

- The Salesforce acquisition changed a lot of things about the culture, positions, teams, and leadership of SteelBrick for the worse (as expected with any acquisition, but still tough to manage). - The acquisition happened so fast (announcement to close ~1 month), that it barely gave employees time to process. The business had to be wrapped up and packaged for SFDC so quickly that employees were basically handed their offer letters and told 'sign now and we'll figure out logistics about how your position will change later'. -The lack of communication during the acquisition, on boarding, and transition process created a divide between leadership and employees, causing distrust in leadership. Employees were commonly given answers about the future of their positions with 'we're not sure yet, we're working on it, and we'll let you know when we figure things out'. - SteelBrick leadership focused primarily on their money-making teams (sales and dev) as their priority to ensure a smooth transition. The other teams we're offered positions with Salesforce, but haven't been given the opportunity to get the same improvements. The leadership team is only willing to fight for the teams that make more money for them. - The further we get into Salesforce, the more we've lost our personal identity and culture. There's not as many fun events or opportunities for employees to come together and enjoy some time off. Everyone's too overworked and underpaid to want to stay around the office longer then they have to.

For the few people who are great, there are a tremendous amount of people who do "just enough" to not get fired. With a company that prides itself on "employee happiness" and not having lawsuits, it's not in their best interest to fire people. What you get left with is a dead sea effect (or people airing out their laundry). Lastly, because it is mostly a sales company that sells software (not a software company) Many of the decisions are made in products favor without equal voice to engineering. Direct managers are punished for their employees leaving, even if it is the fault of the organization as a whole. Furthermore, since this company has so many acquisitions, you have the "Nest" Effect. Some organizations are terribly mismanaged and painful to those having to do all the work.