Working at ExactTarget is rewarding and provides innovative experiences. - Anonymous employee Salesforce Employee Review

5.0
28 Jul 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The ORANGE culture at ExactTarget Marketing Cloud is infused throughout every aspect of business. Being Orange means being easy to do business with, making customers look like heroes -- to me it means being nice, helpful, and positive (even about the un-fun stuff). Employees at ExactTarget are fun, bright, and congenial -- can you say that about where you work? We all have a common goal to continue to provide the world's only platform to build and manage 1:1 customer journeys with some of the top brands of the world as our customers. With fabulous benefits including paid volunteer time off, wellness reimbursement, competitive health, vision, and dental, an ever-improving 401K, as well as plenty of PTO -- ET employees have a lot to be grateful for.

Cons

What can I say? ExactTarget offers talent management and development programs, training plans for new and existing employees, PTO, and has leadership that promotes innovation. My one complaint would be the lack of women in leadership, particularly on the exec team. Perhaps with the leadership of veteran ET exec and new CEO, Scott McCorkle, ExactTarget will work to develop and maintain women in valuable leadership roles.

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4.0
9 Jul 2014
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Pros

I've spent over 8 years with Salesforce in various management and individual contributor roles, all customer or partner facing. Some of the pros: - vibrant, fast paced culture - smart, fun, aggressive colleagues - management is focused on latest tech trends and staying or becoming a leader for many of them - by and large, customers and partners are very positive about the technology - good benefits and perqs - hip urban culture at HQ - a chart-your-own-course mentality that rewards those who aggressively seek out the job they want and pursue it, or sometimes even create it

Cons

After my long tenure and many Dreamforce conferences, I'm nearly fried. To say the culture is fast paced and the focus is always changing is an understatement. The reason Salesforce always seems on top, and chasing the latest trend, and in the press, is because employees are expected to run harder, carry more, cheer loudly, and pivot constantly. It's the world's biggest startup in behavior. But at the same time, with the recent influx of top career sales leaders from Oracle and what appears to be a board-level mandate for doubling revenue, employees are being asked to do even more with even less, fill higher quotas with smaller territories, less help, and the big company bureaucracy is rearing it's ugly head. Worse still is the politics. When you hire a bunch of smart, aggressive people, and put them in an environment of outsized expectations, throw in a bunch of re-orgs and changing management, and sprinkle with uncertainty and constantly changing priorities, you inevitably get people back stabbing each other and throwing others under the bus to appear smarter and more worthy of promotion. The few at the top will get very, very rich. The rest will lose the sense of personal ownership and start to wonder why they've given up health and family

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It's not often that you get the opportunity to respond to a review 10 years in but your comprehensive and thoughtful review has managed to hold on as one of our most popular even a decade in :) It’s exciting to see that the things we love most about the Salesforce of today — super smart colleagues, being at the forefront of tech trends and establishing ourselves as leaders in the space, great benefits and perks to name a few — haven’t changed in the past 10 years. We acknowledge the challenges you faced, such as the pace, shifting priorities, and internal politics. Your advice on maintaining our foundational vision while avoiding big-company bureaucracy is helpful as we continue to grow as the #1 AI CRM. Salesforce is committed to balancing growth with employee well-being and staying true to our core values. We appreciate your insights and dedication over the years. Thanks again for your feedback!
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