Salesforce.com – “Successful company that should evolve further”

Pros

The company has been very successful in building a product that appeals to a broad range of customers, leveraging the SaaS model. Now they've turned their SFA product into a generalized platform for business application development. So they are well-positioned to succeed.

There is an engineering culture that will please technical staff, and a reasonable amount of benefits and amenities. There's nothing really stupid going on there.

Cons

Their engineering practices are still evolving and are somewhat primitive. Most of the technical staff are from a small number of places, and don't seem to have a lot of perspective on what they're doing.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire more people with enterprise application development experience.