Salesforce

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “both Salesforce and Hubspot have integrations with just about everything”

  POSITIVE · integration · Reddit · 2026-09-24

• “we have Salesforce but I use it mostly to get account numbers”

  LUKEWARM · features · Reddit · 2026-09-10

• “working off emails is a bad idea versus reviewing the lead in Salesforce. If someone is reviewing the lead in Salesforce, they can add information, edit typos”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-14

• “I've gotten 6 certifications and I'm making less then when I had 0 days of Salesforce experience accounting for inflation”

  NEGATIVE · Reddit · 2026-08-14

• “our users are still being forced to use Salesforce Authenticator (on top of Okta MFA)”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2026-08-14

• “ive been able to learn salesforce with no prior experience and build a foundation of knowledge”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2026-08-14

• “keep Salesforce as the system of record where the forecast will also finally come out of because the record is maintained by a platform that was "in the room" when it all took place”

  MIXED · features · Reddit · 2026-08-13

• “The processes are so chaotic and tons of manual downloads from one system (like our erps, salesforce, smartsheets 😱) emailed to another person who transforms and cleans and loads into the next system.”

  NEGATIVE · Reddit · 2026-08-13

• “Salesforce is robbery at this point. How is there no API access at $10k/yr?!”

  NEGATIVE · price · Reddit · 2026-08-13

• “Non-elevated users asked to set up a passkey in Salesforce. These are users who aren't subject to the new requirements to begin with.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-13

• “Literally the last straw for me with Salesforce. Pulling my clients out of this obnoxious platform!”

  NEGATIVE · Reddit · 2026-08-12

• “I was just locked out of my account today. I truly don't understand how I was out of compliance because I had salesforce authenticator and a built in method. I'm very confused.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2026-08-12

• “Salesforce views this as both a known issue and expected behavior”

  NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-12

• “I kept hitting the same wall. A team that genuinely shares one Salesforce login, a service or sandbox account, now needs a phishing-resistant factor, and a passkey lives on one device. Every existing answer has a catch.”

  NEGATIVE · Reddit · 2026-08-11

• “forget Salesforce didn't always have that rollup flexibility built in”

  NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-11

• “working at Salesforce gives you access to training and mentorship that outsiders don't have access to”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-11

• “It keeps Salesforce cleaner without loosing the reporting context”

  POSITIVE · Reddit · 2026-08-11

• “It's the biggest career killer. I work at Salesforce as SDE. Trust me, you'll be forever stuck in this role”

  NEGATIVE · Reddit · 2026-08-11

• “Most of the big-box CRMs actually cost the sales team time, due to their design to truly improve executive-level forecasting and reporting. I've seen numbers as high as 25-33% - representing the amount of human capital waste the CRMs create for sales reps. Salesforce, Hubspot, Microsoft Dynamics, Zoho, etc. all fall in that category”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2026-08-10

• “I just jumped to actually work for Salesforce and earn 350k.”

  POSITIVE · Reddit · 2026-08-09

• “Claude plus Salesforce feels like a super power for our business”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-08

• “What's "neat" about the Salesforce one is that you can run it locally and just iterate it over as many images as you feel like”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-18

• “Salesforce is the most bloated piece of any software I've ever seen”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-09

• “In the end we got rid of Salesforce, him, AND the VP of marketing.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-08

• “I tried to do that with Salesforce but they're insane so you can't.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-20