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      Slack Sr. Software Engineer reviews

      4.0

      74% would recommend to a friend

      (51 total reviews)
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      Stewart Butterfield

      61% approve of CEO

      73% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.7

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.5

      Work/Life balance

      4.4

      Compensation and benefits

      4.0

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      2.7

      Senior management

      Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Slack with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 51 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Slack is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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      51 reviews
      3.0
      Jun 25, 2022

      A company with good people but perverse incentives

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The people here are genuinely nice and caring. People do try to do the right thing in general and are dedicated to their jobs. The work-life balance is great, especially in the post-covid world, and I think people are really good at working remotely here. Also, I want to point out that this is a big company, so the stuff in my "cons" column might be a departmental issue.

      Cons

      One of Slack's core values is "collaborative." However, the way managers measure performance encourages division and siloing. The only thing that will get you a promotion is being the "DRI" for an important project. Everyone works alone unless they're an associate SWE or they need something, and they do try to help each other because they're nice and caring, but the incentives are to pull separately, not together. Surprisingly, Slack apparently does not, or does not always, collect direct reports' feedback on management as part of their review process. Weird!

      5.0
      May 14, 2022

      A great an inclusive place to work at

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Slack is great to work at, specially the people! It is a very inclusive workplace, tons of interesting work to be done and people are very collaborative. There is great work balance and you really fell you belong there.

      Cons

      Monolith is not ideal, also having a couple of in-house built tools/systems as the preferred way for how engineers should work, lowering flexibility.

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