Slack reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(1,096 total reviews)
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Stewart Butterfield

88% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Slack has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,096 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 Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Jun 26, 2018

Hypergrowth adventure ride

Recommend
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Pros

Slack for me is the best of two worlds: the excitement of a true startup, but with the financial stability of a large company that comes from having hundreds of millions of investment in the bank. This provides an environment of ceaseless forward momentum and opportunity to stretch yourself. There is not only an opportunity to put your stamp on things, but a necessity, as small teams try to achieve what is normally done by groups ten times their size at other companies. In general, your leadership will give you wide latitude and trust to get the job done as you see fit. If you are ambitious about your career, Slack is an open road.

Cons

Many people feed off the energy of a startup environment. If you don't, however, and instead seek stability and predictability, Slack will probably not be the dream employer for you. As a company that has achieved more in four years than other top tier tech companies have in ten years, change is constant here. If you have come from a large company like Google or FB, learning and development will feel different than what you are used to. You will find very little structured, classroom-style learning here, but you will learn on the job through being afforded opportunities to do things you otherwise wouldn't. Some may find this a little daunting.

5.0
Jun 6, 2018
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Truly incredible opportunity - there are few companies that are growing so quickly, with roles expanding so rapidly along with hefty scope and responsibility for almost anyone who wants to claim it. Many people now at Slack, and still being hired into Slack, are the first ones to do their particular roles so there is an opportunity to shape and build from the ground up. This is not a place for people who want to "rinse and repeat". It's a place to solve hard challenges, do things for the first time, and set a precedent going forward. Slack is a career making opportunity and people on the team know that - it's full of smart people who are energized and motivated to do great work, together. As a marketer it's also refreshing to work at a tech company that truly values marketing and provides the budget, headcount, and resources to do the job.

Cons

We're still figuring things out and that can be painful. Processes can be clunky and difficult, our systems and tools and data haven't kept up with our growth which can impeded the ability to get work done. There are competing priorities and while everyone generally has good intentions, projects can get bogged down in bottlenecks throughout the org. We don't have a history of "the way we do things" which makes work more exciting but also more chaotic - we are not yet the efficient machine we'd like to be.

2.0
Jun 2, 2018
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- truly some brilliant, fun to work with people - a fantastic look at how a quickly growing company leveraged a dead simple (sometimes painfully so) infra to build a huge business - people outside of the product org are so nice and friendly, it makes the job seem almost fun - some excellent managers around, lots of people you would hope to work with again

Cons

Cons - the larger more interesting opportunities require a very strange and unpredictable amount of pleasing the right people and not rocking the boat - do not disagree even cordially with people have been there long enough, you will be punished - routinely underpay juniors, feel bad for em - too many “technical” managers avoiding what they actually need to be doing...managing!

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