Leaked Slack all-hands meeting reveals a ‘strong culture clash’ with Salesforce
There seems to be a certain consensual hallucination that happens with these acquisitions. The acquirer says &quot;you&#x27;re amazing, you do great work, we don&#x27;t want to change a thing, you&#x27;ll still be completely autonomous, we&#x27;ll just help you accelerate&quot;. And there&#x27;s a good reason for it, the employees came to work for Slack, not Salesforce and if they all quit then the acquisition will have been a waste. So Salesforce makes all the same promises, but at the end of the day there&#x27;s reality. The second Salesforce bought Slack, Slack ceased to exist, and all the workers now work for Salesforce. There&#x27;s no culture clash between Slack and Salesforce. There&#x27;s a Slack culture that once existed, and now there&#x27;s Salesforce culture the company those workers now work at. You can embrace it, you can be unhappy, and you can leave. But remember, you&#x27;re at Salesforce now and those other 70,000 workers - they joined the Salesforce culture, not the Slack culture and they sure as hell didn&#x27;t buy you because of your culture.<p>And all those promises about Slack being independent and autonomous? Well sure, that was the plan, but now Slack is a part of Salesforce and Salesforce makes decisions that make sense for Salesforce, not Slack. So no, you don&#x27;t get your own sales team, and no, you don&#x27;t get your own customer support team. You&#x27;re part of Salesforce now, it doesn&#x27;t make sense. Oh and no, you aren&#x27;t going to get the benefits you were getting at Slack, you don&#x27;t work at Slack, you work at Salesforce, and hey! Some of those benefits may genuinely be better. Those HR reps that sorted all your perks at Slack? They&#x27;re working in a Salesforce HR department now (if they weren&#x27;t fired) and they&#x27;re working to give you the Salesforce benefits.<p>It&#x27;s a tough message but when someone buys the company you work for, you no longer work at the old company, you work at the new company, no matter what anyone says.