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      Slack

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      Slack reviews

      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (1,095 total reviews)
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      Stewart Butterfield

      88% approve of CEO

      70% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      4.2

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Senior management

      Slack has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,095 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Slack employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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      1K reviews
      1.0
      Oct 14, 2020

      Poor leadership holding back decent product

      Engineering manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Overall, Slack has a good set of co-workers within Engineering. The product is decent, and contributes to helping people get work done as opposed to just making money off of ads.

      Cons

      There is no company direction. The product is stagnant, and the focus is primarily on getting more users as opposed to making a better product. No one, either in engineering or product management, can make a long term roadmap. We move from the crisis of today to the crisis of tomorrow. We constantly spread ourselves too thin.

      3.0
      Nov 27, 2018

      Comfortable Place, Nice People. Not Great for Career Advancement

      Data scientist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * Good work/life balance. Management seems to career about employees' wellness. Lots of fringe benefits including good Mat/Pat leave. * Company has a good name and is on a good trajectory. * Coworkers are pretty nice and mature.

      Cons

      * At least within Analytics, ICs are rarely promoted. Mid-managers come up with rubrics for judging advancement, but use vague definitions to make assessment fit their view. In two years, among fifteen colleagues, I've observed perhaps three IC promotions (manager class seems to promote itself) * In same vein, mid-management is reluctant to promote ICs to management, tend to hire from outside so nearly impossible to move up from IC to mgr * Fast growth issues: getting things out the door is focused on, so quick wins are praised and rewarded, while building scalable solutions is often overlooked. Result is a lot of tech debt and even basic data questions still take a long time to get answered. On an org level, code base is a behemoth and we've now finally been forced into clean-up mode because it's struggling to scale.

      1.0
      Nov 7, 2018

      A company succeeding despite itself

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      There are some smart and friendly people in supporting roles at Slack

      Cons

      Slack is all hype but guaranteed to make some people wildly rich, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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