Salesforce

Onboarding is two weeks for us techies. It's very comprehensive and required; no manager can steal you from it.

It gives confidence and great information to get your hands dirty quickly. The company is not a rigid, formal, old-school shop, nor is it a startup. It seems to be a well-run, human-oriented enterprise with a focus on educating the workers and giving them the right tools.

Management is very attentive to feedback and surveys. They discuss any negatives found in the process and attempt to address them.

Folks are helpful and mostly transparent, though there is a bit of a caste-system mentality in some individuals. Management is not very tolerant of silos; they try hard to break those.

Intense at times. Silo breaking must go on. The process of getting approvals to push features is not basic. Context switching between projects, with some shutdowns/restarts based on resources, is pretty regular, at least in my org. The SF Downtown location is challenging for some due to long commutes, though shuttles are offered along 101 and other routes.

Minimize context switching. Once decided, keep projects going till the end; don't start, restart, or stop. Keep breaking the mini-silos, typically at the line manager level.