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

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
Dec 11, 2019
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Pros

Slack has a beautiful office in San Francisco. Almost everyone there is very nice and wants to see you succeed. The perks are nice, especially the weekly massages.

Cons

I had 3 managers (4 if you count the time I had no manager) over ~6 months. The whiplash was disorienting and I couldn't focus or get my work done. My original manager was amazing, his replacement was bad (overcommitted, late to everything, bad listener) to the point that I quit. I miss my teammates but I don't miss him. Additionally, when I was leaving, I found that multiple coworkers had tried to transfer out to other teams at Slack and had been denied by the director of our department. IMO, that's unacceptable. The pay isn't great - relatively low base pay for a company their size plus a yearly bonus that the finance department threatens to take away at every all hands.

5.0
Sep 18, 2019
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Pros

My favorite thing about Slack is the folks I get to work with. My team is amazing and I love being surrounded by such a smart and diverse group of people. Leadership gets a lot of things right, the benefits are amazing, and work life balance is much better than a lot of other places I've been.

Cons

The biggest quality of life issue is the relatively fragile and monolithic codebase. I'm lucky enough to spend my time working out of the monolith, but it's there and it's big and it leads to incidents. We do have a healthy culture around incidents (postmortems, etc) but life would be better if we reduced the amount of time we spent on them.

5.0
Sep 18, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting problems to solve. Smart, fun, caring coworkers. Overall the most transparent place I've worked. Focused on increasing diversity. Good perks and compensation. Feel empowered to try new things and make changes.

Cons

The company is getting quite big so sometimes getting things done can take a while (compared to a startup). Being in a remote office sometimes makes it hard to feel like part of the rest of the greater company, however, over the short time I've been here so far, it's gotten better! The review process doesn't seem consistent across engineering which can make it hard for people to all feel like they are getting and able to provide useful feedback.

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