Simple, Intuitive and Fun
October 04, 2025

Simple, Intuitive and Fun

Divyateja Chepuru | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Slack

Our engineering team heavily relies on Slack to collaborate across geographies and timezones. Emails often felt slow and fragmented for our cross-functional work, and Slack solves it with clear channel organization and easy integrations with tools like Jira/ Github/ Zoom.

Beyond this, Slack has been phenomenal for building stronger team culture - be it sharing wins, quick team updates, and even for fun conversations. This ensures the team stays connected even when spread across offices.

Pros

  • Great collaboration in an organised manner reduces the chaos of long email chains while also catering for team fun
  • Seamless integrations with other tools make project updates and alerts flow directly into channels
  • Adds the fun element to our daily communication and connects folks from across the regions

Cons

  • It gets tough to find older conversatons/ files in hyper active channels
  • At times, the Slack overloads me with a lot of notifications and it becomes hard to go through them.
  • Better ways to track or pin important conversations is appreciated. Difficult to track threads
  • Faster decision making improving delivery timelines
  • Productivity boost with integrations to other tools reduced context switching
  • Fosters stronger team bonding and connectedness
It's intuitive to use and feels familiar with most other chat tools we use in daily life. Clean interface and intuitive design is easy to adopt. Integrations with other tools like Jira blended in seamlessly for us. Beyond this, it just isn't about the serious conversations but rather fun ones too that keeps everyone engaged. Search could be improved, though
Slack offers a fresh look and feel, and has felt more natural and engaging when compared to Teams or Google Chat. Teams felt heavy and less intuitive while G Chat lacks integrations and community feel. Slack strikes a balance by being simple enough for everyday use while strong enough to handle cross-functional collaboration.

Do you think Slack delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Slack's feature set?

Yes

Did Slack live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Slack go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Slack again?

Yes

Slack is excellent for cross-functional teams where speed and transparency are essential in communication. It caters for quick decision-mking, coordinating deployments and conversations organized.

It is also a fantastic tool for building team culture and keeping team connected

But it's not suitable as a final source of truth - like documentation or detailed decision tracking

Slack Feature Ratings

Project Management
7.0
Task Management
8
Scheduling
9
Workflow Automation
9
Mobile Access
8
Search
6
Visual planning tools
2
Communication
6.8
Chat
10
Notifications
6
Discussions
8
Surveys
8
Internal knowledgebase
2
File Sharing & Management
5.6
Versioning
5
Video files
8
Audio files
8
Document collaboration
1
Access control
1
Advanced security features
7
Device sync
9

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