Salesforce reviews

- since 2023 there is nothing of the old outstanding culture left. Values not existing anymore - cannibalization between sales departments. Working towards same goal, but only one can benefit - 1st and 2nd line management (Dublin based) completely useless. Only KPI driven, no impact, no learning, often no understanding of the real business. - high quoatas based on past, not present. Always behind or not good enough even if hit. Demotivating. - management unable to cope, new decesisons every week. Cant plan for success anymore. - political games - high pressure atm, working here isnt fun anymore - very few career development opportunities since 12 months

Culture has tanked after the massive layoffs in 2022/2023: politicking and backstabbing has always been an issue, and while being addressed it has increased massively after the layoffs as people are afraid for their jobs. There was no structure to the layoffs and a ton of critical & successful people were being let go - so everyone basically is afraid of being next. Salesforce is in a constant process of restructuring. The larger we've become the less likely it is to be able to have any way of impacting your trajectory. If you're lucky enough to stay in the same role for longer than 18 months, it's very likely that your management will have changed during that time. Branding yourself is therefore critical. If you're not successful in building your brand aggressively, you'll end up just being shuffled around with no say in the matter. Career planning is almost impossible because of that. No matter what role you apply for: it won't be the same in 12 months and you might end up doing something completely different over just a few years - if you want to or not. As we've grown to a real enterprise, micro management has taken hold. Salesforce used to operate on a system of trust and avoiding administration: needed to travel? just do whatever is necessary, the company trusted you to not overspend - results were what mattered. Nowadays it's like all other large enterprises: multiple approvers for every parking ticket and travel restrictions en masse. Traveling to customers was easy and encouraged, today it's unreasonably hard to travel.