great for juniors, disempowering for seniors
Pros
- Visionary company, great learning ground to understand cloud, hypergrowth, best in the world sales practices - not a month without a gift (private concerts, weekend at the CEO's place in Hawaii, sports cars and Cartier watches given away during events or simply for good results) - commitment to giving back to charities and communities - very good compensation, generous stock option and free share packages - to juniors this is wonderland, feels like a cult to the founder - robust and clear onboarding and ongoing trainings and career development
Cons
- seniors are unempowered: there is no real P&L, even the President/EVP of a geography does not have a real P&L. They don't have a balance sheet to manage either. All major decisions are taken in San Francisco by the same 4 people - if you are not an affirmed Democrat you are clearly excluded. I remember this mandatory fundraising diner for Hillary Clinton. Anyone not paying and going was clearly set aside afterwards - highly political at executive level: achieving results is considered obvious. What matters to progress is knowing the founder, "culture and behavior" and "personal brand" which means personal preferences, lack of meritocracy, and fierce competition to build one's "brand" (announce results before others, take credit for others work etc).