Beware - Positive reviews are from employees that steer clear of the executive team - Anonymous employee Slack Employee Review

1.0
May 23, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Lots of great, smart, hard working people at Slack. - Work on a product enterprise software users enjoy. - Competitive compensation plans.

Cons

- Very bad behaviour at the executive level (including CEO verbally assaulting employees in public Slack channels). - Highly political environment. The highest I've seen in Silicon Valley. (But people don't talk about it out of fear.) - No upward mobility (see highly political environment). - HR is there to protect executives/founders, not employees (but that's common). - High turnover in eng/product/design due to toxic work environment (so you will spend a lot of time interviewing to add to your team)

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5.0
Mar 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- high per-hour pay - 10k housing stipend

Cons

- no overtime pay (or you can, but most don't log it since hourly pay is already so high)

4.0
May 11, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people, no micro management, good work/life balance

Cons

Limited opportunities, lots of hiring freezes, limited transparency in leadership decisions

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