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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Jun 17, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

There's a very friendly and open atmosphere here. Slack was quick to recognise some of the challenges that reared onboarding remotely and changes were made to combat those. I feel very lucky to work at Slack and feel like I belong here. Our customer-facing approach makes working life easier. They are very transparent and listen to their employees. They hire sound people as well who are there to support you in the long run.

Cons

It can feel like you're forgotten about once onboarding has completed and there are times where I find myself drowning for support because Slack moves at such a fast pace. The way feedback is delivered can sometimes be very harsh and cold without any constructive advice attached.

3.0
Jun 9, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Beautiful HQ office (global pandemic notwithstanding), well-loved useful product, work/life balance is usually supported, strong culture of acceptance and inclusion (by a majority of ICs, at least), perks on par with comparable companies, codebase is receiving much-needed rewrites, CEO has a decent moral compass

Cons

The problem with a startup based on transparency that operates within its own “searchable log of all communication and knowledge” is that eventually, if successful, it grows up to be an enterprise company that has to admit that not everything should be found if searched for. This growth without corporate maturation has resulted in a massive communication and expectation rift, both between ICs and management as well as cross-functionally, and it fuels everything from the constructive feedback problem (everyone's afraid to give it for fear of seeming “not nice") to the product direction problem (roadmaps are slapped together and then changed if the OKRs they support start looking bad) to the reliability problem (tests are flaky and QA is understaffed) to the management problem (lots of middle managers are ineffective but aren’t supported or held accountable - until last year upwards 360 feedback cycles for management had been removed completely for over a year) to the leveling problem (many employees are brought in under-leveled, leading to a burst of work to be promoted and creating resentment and demoralization) to the hiring problem (C-suite, almost all recently and externally sourced to soothe stockholders, won’t concede outright that they want shiny FAANG resumes and not culture fit i.e. “Slackiness” anymore).

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