Slack Review
October 21, 2025
Slack Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Slack
Slack is the core, consistent messaging program my organization uses on a daily basis as a global company. We also have larger channels for general communication from the company, whether that is leadership giving updates or congratulations, or places for individual workers to address concerns, as well as smaller channels for individual teams so we don't have to track email threads to each other.
We also have a number of integrations, and when asked to remove Slack for budgetary reasons, the integrations we have in place kept us from switching to more cost effective methods, just because the level of friction it would take to implement work-arounds and alternative methods of tracking different things were determined to be too many/difficult. We have integrations to our outage systems so people can receive the notifications via Slack, we have multiple customer feedback channels that pull from our NPS and website feedback so we don't have to worry about finding that feedback and collating it manually, its all just published right into a channel. This means we can respond within minutes to negative or confused feedback, to say nothing of easily creating engineering tickets from individual messages and working on fixes with very little friction to reporting.
We also have a number of integrations, and when asked to remove Slack for budgetary reasons, the integrations we have in place kept us from switching to more cost effective methods, just because the level of friction it would take to implement work-arounds and alternative methods of tracking different things were determined to be too many/difficult. We have integrations to our outage systems so people can receive the notifications via Slack, we have multiple customer feedback channels that pull from our NPS and website feedback so we don't have to worry about finding that feedback and collating it manually, its all just published right into a channel. This means we can respond within minutes to negative or confused feedback, to say nothing of easily creating engineering tickets from individual messages and working on fixes with very little friction to reporting.
Pros
- Integrations with third party apps
- Easy filtering and sorting of channels
- Incredible flexibility in notification settings
Cons
- Mark a whole conversation as unread instead of an individual message
- Control of Reminders on For Later tasks
- Sometimes notifications to mobile are either missing or duplicate. More detailed control of that would be nice.
- Additional revenue generation because of response times from feedback tools.
- Increased brand trust because everyone was on the same page for updates
Teams is better to schedule meetings with and integrates with Outlook well, but that leads to duplicate notifications for things, which is distracting and a waste of time. Messaging in Teams not great compared to Slack, and has the potential to have people outside your organization reach out to you. Integrations are also harder to come by/more difficult to use comparatively.
Discord is just a security nightmare for corporate work and while it is very similar feels more casual compared to Slack.
Discord is just a security nightmare for corporate work and while it is very similar feels more casual compared to Slack.
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?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Slack again?
Yes

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