Looking to make a big career move? Julianne Tajuba, scientist turned solution engineer, shares her tips to bravely pursue the role of your dreams.
Even when we’re physically distanced, we do not need to be emotionally distant. Discover how you can rethink human connection and the future of work.
Years ago, while on sabbatical in Hawaii, Marc Benioff had a vision for a different kind of company – one built around not only a new technology, business, and philanthropy model, but also built around the Hawaiian concept of “Ohana” – which means “family” in Hawaiian.
Today, Ohana is at the heart of everything Salesforce does. It is the deep-seated support system we nurture inside our company that extends from our employees to our customers, our partners, and our communities. It is the bedrock upon which our company was built and the foundation for all the success that has flowed – and will continue to flow from it.
So what does Ohana look like in practice?
Our core values – Innovation, Customer Success, and Giving Back – make our work meaningful, while our other values – Trust, Transparency, Equality, Wellness and Fun – ensure that we work together right. Together these values unite us, inspire us, and make us uniquely Salesforce – a great place to work.
When it comes to generating new leads, our global team of Sales Representatives (SRs) means business! SRs work closely with inbound prospects to determine how our products can help them best run their businesses.
Sales Development - Outbound
For Business Development Representatives (BDRs), every new and existing account is a prospect for business. BDRs also collaborate closely with their Account Executive to build a pipeline across multiple product lines.
Sales Account Executive
We’re experiencing unprecedented growth due to the demand from companies to connect with customers. And we’re growing our team of Strategic Account Managers and Account Executives to tackle this demand.
Sales Engineering
The Sales Engineer solicits business requirements, develops a technical sales strategy and presents Salesforce as the solution for building stronger customer connections.
Find your dream job in TechnologyDevelop world-class, highly visible technology and write code that ships at the World’s Most Innovative Company
Accelerate your career at the fastest growing brand of the world’s top 10 enterprise software companies
Move easily from one scrum team to another through Opportunity Open Market, an internal Tech & Product job fair held three times a year
Take one week per year to explore your own projects (and maybe even create an app that goes live to customers) through our Paid Time On program
Technology Teams
Software Development
This team designs, architects, and develops platforms and applications for companies like Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Google, and E*TRADE.
Quality Engineering
Hands-on coding and automation are what it's all about on our Quality Engineering team. We won’t settle for anything less than delivering the best product to our customers.
Trust
Trust is our #1 value at salesforce.com. This team works to address tightening security and compliance requirements and regulations and uphold our commitment to security on all fronts.
Technical Operations
Our Technical Operations team delivers the most trustworthy, dependable and innovative infrastructure services to our community of global customers.
Performance Engineering
Performance Engineering helped salesforce.com become the first enterprise cloud computing company with full transparency into our platform’s performance: trust.salesforce.com.
User Experience
It’s all about the user on this team, where we design great experiences that ensure our customers’ success.
Technology People and Leadership
Employees on this team deliver social, onboarding, tech training, recognition, rewards innovation, and patent programs to the Technology organization.
Technical Program Management
This team works across the clouds, driving programs that deliver innovative enterprise cloud applications and infrastructure. We are the grease, glue, and coach that create delighted users, thriving teams and innovation everywhere.
Technical Documentation
The Documentation and User Assistance team has won 12 STC Touchstone awards in three years. This dynamic group is always looking for new innovators and game-changers.
Launch your career at the world leader in cloud computing. More than 80% of our interns become full-time employees. You could be one of them.
Careers in Technology
Build the next generation of social, mobile and cloud technologies at the World’s Most Innovative Company--and have fun doing it!
Careers in Business
Deliver success for customers who love us with a role in sales, Services, Marketing, Finance, Legal or Employee Success--and make your #dreamjob a reality.
#FutureForce Internships, Co-ops, and Traineeships
Our internships are paid positions that offer you the chance to grow and receive meaningful work experience. We offer internship opportunities to undergraduate- and graduate-level students. They typically run for 12 weeks during the summer in our HQ offices and 4-6 months throughout the year in our EMEA/Europe locations. As an intern, you'll work in a professional, collaborative environment under the supervision of a manager and the direction of a mentor and take on exciting, challenging, high-visibility projects. Meanwhile, the University Programs team will provide you with career guidance and coaching opportunities.
We also have some select co-op opportunities, which are often longer-term assignments through which you can receive academic credit, (depending on your university requirements) and some opportunities to work on your masters thesis.
Our traineeships will help you make your first step in the business world. You will be trained up and work alongside seasoned professionals to help get most out of your experience. Traineeships usually run 3-6 months with an eye on your personal development in the business. Around 80% of our trainees got converted last year into a full-time permanent position.
#FutureForce New College Grads
The #FutureForce program for new college grads gives you the chance to launch your career in a supportive, dynamic environment. You’ll be fully integrated into your team, innovating alongside seasoned professionals and being empowered to manage your own projects, and you’ll be provided with plenty of mentoring and guidance to ensure that your transition into the workforce is a smooth and positive one. Most importantly, you’ll be doing work that matters and gaining real-world business experience. This program is designed to give you the tools, resources, and support you need to develop your skills, explore your interests, and start out successfully on the path to your #dreamjob.
Toronto
10 Bay Street, Suite 400
Toronto, ON
Vancouver Branch
Ste. 710 375 Water St.
Vancouver, BC
Montréal
1000 de la Gauchetière, 24th Floor
Montréal, Québec
Helpful (8)
I have been working at Salesforce full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Best front end system(s) of engagement in the business. The platform earns you time to speak with all executive lines of business about strategic direction and where you can support their success. It's one of the biggest reasons that I've come back to the company. There's some great competition for enterprise sales with AWS and Google Cloud but I'd much rather speak to executive stakeholders rather than IT about Infrastructure. Lot's of meat on the bone for things to sell with recent acquisitions.
Cons
It's up to you to build healthy boundaries around work life balance when you are working at the fastest growing enterprise company in the world. Occasionally, you can get boxed in with certain verticals (teams) not wanting you to venture outside of their linear career path. Emerging commercial business roles are subject to transactional sales and relationships but show me a company where that's not the case. Occasionally implementation partners are not adequately prepared to take on large deal implementations which can result in customer satisfaction issues. These can linger and be stressful but there are the right resources on the Salesforce end to make things right.
Advice to Management
Salesforce is subject to hiring top performing sales reps as managers. Occasionally I'd like to scream from the mountain top that the best sales people don't necessarily translate to the best managers. Hire the best people and provide them with the autonomy and tools to do their job and get out of their way.
Helpful (5)
Application
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce (Toronto, ON) in November 2019.
Interview
I applied through employee referral the process took roughly one month and half . The interview process was quiet challenging started with a screening interview with recuiter and then phone interview with hiring manager followed by face to face 90 minutes interview with hiring manager and two other interviews with senior management and the team . After the interview rounds I was given a case study on which I worked for two weeks and presented to a panel . The most amazing thing about the whole process was the transparency of it and the spirit . They dont try to trick you rather they set you up for success and they were very nice during the whole process . Hiring manager was very helpful during dry runs gave me onstructive feedback and was very accessible as well via email or phone . The whole process was a amazing and challenging exprience .
Interview Questions
