Salesforce

The culture here is fantastic. I'm actually excited to go to work every morning.

My coworkers never cease to impress me, and that's not limited to my engineering cohorts. Technical and non-technical people across the company are phenomenal at their jobs.

The benefits are excellent, ranging from your fairly typical health insurance and stock options to free catered meals, train passes, and a sizeable monthly housing stipend for living within 3 miles of the main office in Palo Alto.

On top of that, the company listens to its employees and acquires things people want. For example, recent acquisitions included a foosball table and a new cold brew kegerator.

Honestly, the only downside I've been able to come up with is that they don't allow dogs. The relationship back to SFDC core isn't perfect (more stringent security and trust requirements), but as a multi-billion dollar company with multi-million dollar contracts that rely on the integrity of secure customer data, I can understand that.

Keep doing what you're doing. I think you've managed to keep a good eye on the cultural pulse and maintain our culture independent of Salesforce core, which I think is key.

I would mention, though, that I think we need to expand the Engineering track. I think a lot of people who pursued promotions in the past have ended up in management when they didn't really want to be managers.