SuccessFactors Reviews

I have been working at SuccessFactors full-time for more than a year

Pros – Awesome attitude of staff. Everyone is positive and supportive. Really interesting industry. Highly challenging, complex, competitive sales cycles. requires staff to really dig in and learn. Good technology. Supportive executive staff. HCM, cloud space is exploding.

Cons – Very competitive space. Hardest sales job I have ever had. Must know the Human Capital Management space....or be prepared to work extremely hard to learn it.

Advice to Senior Management – None really. Management is great. Maybe a little unsophisticated for such a large company. But not really an issue.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at SuccessFactors full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Remote possibilities, salary and company culture

Cons – no career path, no development; disjointed

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at SuccessFactors as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – -Big name, looks on good as work experience
-Big company resources

Cons – -A lot of meetings. Constantly.
-CC culture on emails, you will get a lot of emails that are totally irrelevant to your work
-Productivity is low
-Lots of turnover at the senior level, mostly hiring on contractor need= revolving door of employees
-Don't practice what they preach in terms of HR
-A lot of virtual work,
-Very difficult to get ahold of different employees, constant meetings scheduled and rescheduled- no accountability --> ownership is constantly passed along
-Things just happen to the company, a reactive rather than proactive organization. You can come in one day and find out someone doesn't work there and you had no idea because you never saw their face.
-Workspace is limited, desks are given on strange status based reasons, despite preaching a flex work culture
-Very difficult to speak to employees or managers privately due to workspace architecture, everything is heard among the whole office- this can be a good or bad thing depending on how you look at it, but can be awkward and embarrassing to fester in all day
-Goals are unrealistic and set you up to fail
-You have no control on whether or not you get to keep your job, you can only work as well as other people in the organization. If QBR or whatever metrics aren't met, your are thrown overboard.
-Length of time at organization means nothing, hire from outside constantly.
-Poor management structure, too much title inflation. Too many VP's, Directors, SVP's, Presidents, CXX level redundancy in hierarchy, coordinators, directors, managers, sr. managers- just say it like it is people!

Advice to Senior Management – Stop focusing so much on yourself. Improve your communication with your employees, this does not mean having 1 way conversations via a Town Hall where employees who speak up and challenge your declarations are seen as a PR liability.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at SuccessFactors full-time for more than a year

Pros – Flat hierarchy
Empowered employees
passionate leadership

Cons – Its a place in transition with the SAP acquisition

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at SuccessFactors full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great people from all over the world
Opportunity to transition to the bigger Cloud players (reason for a positive rating on career opps).

Cons – Poor Management..."No Jerks" policy does not mean that it's upheld.
Here's company that preaches a great sermon but doesn't follow their own message. Their full Talent Management pitch is around employee engagement and motivating their workforce...unfortunately, managers don't use the performance and goal tools. Sales model is dependent on has extremely poor lead generation and marketing.

Think "Game of Thrones" and HR = Little Finger (watch out).

Advice to Senior Management – Use the tools that you sell for and use them the same reasons you say they're most effective for.
Be open and honest with the sales team and collaborate with them versus giving directives and unreasonable ultimatums. Just because an employee has been in the company for a a long time...does not qualify them for a management role. Using your 360 tool and cross-referencing what the peers say about them, would be a great way to find this out.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at SuccessFactors full-time for more than a year

Pros – Young entrepreneurial culture, competitive pay and bonuses, work from home ok.

Cons – ZERO work life balance and NO respect for your private time. Expect calls & meetings into the late night and also expect you WILL work weekends! The CEO is a bit of a wacko and sends crazy emails and the management will drive you into the ground with long hours and lots of work. Horrible experience.

Advice to Senior Management – HIRE! ! Hire enough people to do the job!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at SuccessFactors full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The compensation and benefits at the company are pretty good. There are people who work here who are amazing and make it a good place to work. There are some career opportunities because of the size of the company.

Cons – So many changes have led to poor communication and very bad decisions. The continual hiring of people outside the company rather than looking to promote people inside the company has led to a significant culture change that is negative. Those who have been hired into leadership are out of touch with those who are doing the actual work. We have a lot of managers but not a lot of real leaders. People are disgruntled and dissatisfied.
There is VERY little real training outside of the Sales team. The Leadership team talks about training constantly but will not invest ANY money in training or resources.

Advice to Senior Management – Get dirty. Go talk to the people who are actually doing all the work, not those who are managing them and are feeding you the "corporate" cliches. Be concerned about your managers. So many new managers have little or no people experience are are doing a poor job of managing their staff. Decisions are being made in the best interests of the managers career not the best interest of the company. Put your money where your mouth is. Stop talking about training and then never delivering on good training programs. The customers are the ones suffering for lack of training, bad management decisions, and inefficiencies. Stop listening to people that you are hiring from other companies who know nothing about how this company works. Listen to those who have worked her and know the real truth about what is going on.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at SuccessFactors full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Flexible schedule, work from home opportunities, autonomy

Cons – Inter-departmental issues. NO ONE takes ownership and PS is left holding the bag. Upper management knows there are issues but ignores them - weak executive management doesn't address the key frustration with why people hate it here. Lack of accountability and ownership among departments; no one is focused on working together to fix issues.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay attention to death by 1000 papercuts - that's causing your smart employees to burn out. Don't let people get away with ignoring issues until they are escalated to the CEO.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at SuccessFactors full-time for more than a year

Pros – Nice company culture and good team

Cons – Salary is not very high

I have been working at SuccessFactors full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Awesome Sales power; Can beat anyone in the market.
Good team of Talent Suit experts in the cloud.
Management team was small and encouraging to the last level of the employee.
Was a good pay master.

Cons – No more a place to work as a team to deliver and engage in company growth after SAP acquisition.
Attrition rate has been the highest after acquisition.
Average paymaster.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend