Does Slack pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Slack employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Slack. This rating has improved by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Slack?

77% of Slack employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Slack 4.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.9 for culture and values and 3.7 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Slack?

Account Executive (95) , Software Engineer (63) , Senior Software Engineer (49) , Customer Experience Agent (28) , Senior Account Executive (26) , Enterprise Account Executive (23) , Customer Success Manager (21) , Manager (17) , Sales (17) , Staff Software Engineer (16) , Customer Experience (14) , Software Engineering Intern (14) , Director (12) , Recruiter (12) , Business Development Representative (BDR) (11)

What are the pros of working at Slack according to real employee reviews?

"Great culture and values!" ((in 202 reviews)); "Great benefits and all the resources you need to do well in sales here." ((in 116 reviews)); "Great work life balance (ex/ Fri" ((in 77 reviews)); "The team is great and smart" ((in 52 reviews)); "• Great leadership that truly is customer centric" ((in 46 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Slack according to real employee reviews?

"I had 3 managers (4 if you count the time I had no manager) over ~6 months." ((in 15 reviews)); "Many layoffs." ((in 9 reviews)); "Lack of diversity in sales teams now that Salesforce leadership has taken over." ((in 8 reviews)); "Limited career opportunities / development" ((in 5 reviews))

What are employees saying about Slack layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Slack layoffs and their outlook for job security at Slack in 2026.

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Slack reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(1,095 total reviews)

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 3.9 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews

5.0

Oct 15, 2020

Very fair and wonderful place to work.

Internal communications

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Welcoming, smart, hard-working, humble, kind.

Cons

Transitional, growing pains, coddling, zoom fatigue, too many cooks.

Slack Response

It’s great to see that you see so many of our values embodied in the culture around you. We hear you on Zoom fatigue and we encourage you to share any ideas you have around combatting this with your manager and leadership, we’re here to support you! -Slack

5.0

Oct 14, 2020

An incredible experience

Senior manager, customer success

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Incredible onboarding during the pandemic. Extraordinary collaboration across business units. Forward thinking technology that has a massive vision to grow. A vision for changing the way that people work and returning efficiency to businesses.

Cons

Challenges of moving beyond customers in the tech sector and getting in the door to convey the value to business leaders vs. IT tools selection.

3.0

Oct 13, 2020

Good Days are gone

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Transparent culture Smart, curious peers

Cons

Passive aggressive shadow side to the culture Leaders are in biggest jobs of career, are failing and not managed out Leaders are hired from big companies who aren’t builders and wait for a team do that Growth is slowing, highly commoditized market

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