Salesforce Employee Reviews about "pay"

Cons

The perks are great but the pay for an entry level person is not great. It all depends on the department you join. If you are in an org that doesn't make money (like HR or Customer Support) you simply won't be making the kind of money that Sales and Marketing is making.

Cons

The activist investors have all but killed the culture Back to the office mandates have been shameful. I have two working moms in my team who have childcare needs that mean they have to be close to them (both have 45 minute commutes). They were coming into the office twice a week… but with 3 days notice they were told to come back 4 days. For somewhere that celebrated being a great place to work for women, that’s dead. The passive aggressive leadership is repugnant. Fourth line leader arrived in our hub having flown in from their ‘remote work from home location’. No hello, just a passive aggressive ‘why is it so quiet, are you all sleeping’ and then lock themselves in a meeting room not engaging with the team. That person needs to go asap as they are killing the SMB culture to the point of no repair. AE’s are coming up to me as a front line leader telling me they don’t trust senior leadership what so ever. That cannot be right Territories and targets are becoming unsustainable. Patches too small and customers oversold. We are an ‘and’ business but many of our customers are tapped out with spend and the bandwidth to implement. A typical 8 AE headcount patch is really more like 6 heads. Car parking costs in one of our offices has skyrocketed. $28 a day yet our name is on the building. Whoever negotiated that contract needs looking at. When this was brought up to senior leadership after the in office mandate, zero sympathy was given and a ‘cost of having a job here’ was the answer we got. The fun has gone. Vegas kick offs and team events were a huge carrot and fair compensation for how hard we work. Little to no investment on culture Layoffs needed to happen as we overhired. But the execution was very poor. They never offered voluntary severance which was a huge mistake. Over 50% of my peers that I’ve spoken to would take it now due to the impact on their mental health.

Cons

Pay is not competitive to what is out there in the market and it is very feast or famine in the sales world.

Cons

None that I can think of right now. I just started and I'm sure there will be hiccups along the way, but I'm confident that SF will support anything challenging that I face.

Cons

Working in a non-Core team at Salesforce can be challenging, with limited control and access to accounts. The Core team often prioritizes their own products over other competing products, leading to missed opportunities and frustration. Despite being hired as a Co-Prime, non-Core reps often find themselves waiting on Core teams and dealing with obstacles in account access. Writing detailed sales plans and waiting for Core approvals can be time-consuming. Some reps choose to take matters into their own hands, but this can lead to conflicts with the Core team. In interviews for Salesforce sales roles, it's recommended to consider the Core role for more control and opportunities. Non-Core roles may come with challenges and limitations due to Core's influence.

Cons

No cab service… nothing else great company to work

Cons

Pay is low relative to other SaaS companies and creating even territories is a challenge for management - some people thrive and others starve and it is typically not due to differences in skill set.

Cons

Culture has tanked after the massive layoffs in 2022/2023: politicking and backstabbing has always been an issue, and while being addressed it has increased massively after the layoffs as people are afraid for their jobs. There was no structure to the layoffs and a ton of critical & successful people were being let go - so everyone basically is afraid of being next. Salesforce is in a constant process of restructuring. The larger we've become the less likely it is to be able to have any way of impacting your trajectory. If you're lucky enough to stay in the same role for longer than 18 months, it's very likely that your management will have changed during that time. Branding yourself is therefore critical. If you're not successful in building your brand aggressively, you'll end up just being shuffled around with no say in the matter. Career planning is almost impossible because of that. No matter what role you apply for: it won't be the same in 12 months and you might end up doing something completely different over just a few years - if you want to or not. As we've grown to a real enterprise, micro management has taken hold. Salesforce used to operate on a system of trust and avoiding administration: needed to travel? just do whatever is necessary, the company trusted you to not overspend - results were what mattered. Nowadays it's like all other large enterprises: multiple approvers for every parking ticket and travel restrictions en masse. Traveling to customers was easy and encouraged, today it's unreasonably hard to travel.

Cons

The pay is exclusively in argentinian pesos and not adjusted as much as one may like. The benefits are very abundant but some may prefer a higher pay rather than a wellbeing benefit. The environment is quite unstable lately given a big number of layoffs during january. There's currently a hire freeze that affected most Interns.

Cons

Won't recommend it for Developers as there is a lot of pressure in this role. Even you are good technically, this role won't benefit you as the work pressure and expectations are too high. Screen time too high - you cannot move 9 hours.