Workday

Lots of opportunity to learn, particularly with the acquisition by Workday.

An over-emphasis on the role of the sales team, with a five-day trip to the Caribbean for top salesmen every year, while the people that actually build the product that salesmen sell are asked to settle for free lunch on Mondays and Fridays.

Unfortunately, the acquisition by Workday has slowed strategic decision-making to a crawl. So, great swaths of the Adaptive team are in holding patterns, wasting a lot of eager talent. Unless you are a salesman, it doesn't feel like anyone cares about your career success.

The hiring process takes forever and ever, and it looks like Workday's processes will slow it down even more.

Retire the entire joke set from all-hands meetings. Nobody cares about the Patriots or finds the jokes funny. Your staff would rather hear strategy than thin, awkward jokes.