Salesforce

Good technology, thought leaders, great location, good parties, nice expense policies.

This place grew too fast, too soon, and tripled the # of employees in as many years.

Coming from a Big 4 consulting background, I was excited when I first joined.

Only to find a huge divide between the techies (Platform) and the traditional (CRM) types. Internally, they are afraid of each other, and it is somewhat cannibalistic.

Techies will find the CRM types are outdated, don't have a clue, and find it hard to adapt to the pure cloud vision.

This place is good to get on your resume. Learn their technologies and hit the independent road if you want to make some real money in this over-hyped cloud/SaaS market.

Management is clueless, and career development by a mentor is a joke, as many legacy people are from the CRM space just trying not to get fired so they can hold on to their stock options.

Their best employees go independent to tap the market while it is still hot. The spineless remain.

Oh, did I mention the politics?

Fire all the CRM has-beens and hire more platform-capable people. The quality of most of the professional services org is a joke, while the real hustlers go independent.