I just left Salesforce a bit ago for HubSpot (see my other comment in this thread), and as someone with a bit of a "kool-aid allergy", so to speak, I've been pleasantly surprised by HubSpot's willingness to say "this is what we're good at, and we're going to stick to being really good at that", even when the alternative is potentially really lucrative (but massive pain).
There are a number of ways that life at HubSpot has been a huge improvement to me, but chief among them is that the _employees_ still matter more than the raw "maximum possible profit, screw everything else" focus that I constantly saw at Salesforce, and the "we don't have to eat every single market (poorly) just because others have tried to do so (poorly)" mentality is evidence of that, IMO.
Please keep being that!
And to the grand-parent commenter, I'm _very_ leery of anything that sounds unpleasantly familiar, and probably overly-cynical about large tech companies at this point...and so far I've found pleasant surprises at HubSpot, and I don't see desire (at least yet — it's been only 6 months for me) to be like Salesforce.
I just left Salesforce a bit ago for HubSpot (see my other comment in this thread), and as someone with a bit of a "kool-aid allergy", so to speak, I've been pleasantly surprised by HubSpot's willingness to say "this is what we're good at, and we're going to stick to being really good at that", even when the alternative is potentially really lucrative (but massive pain).
There are a number of ways that life at HubSpot has been a huge improvement to me, but chief among them is that the _employees_ still matter more than the raw "maximum possible profit, screw everything else" focus that I constantly saw at Salesforce, and the "we don't have to eat every single market (poorly) just because others have tried to do so (poorly)" mentality is evidence of that, IMO.
Please keep being that!
And to the grand-parent commenter, I'm _very_ leery of anything that sounds unpleasantly familiar, and probably overly-cynical about large tech companies at this point...and so far I've found pleasant surprises at HubSpot, and I don't see desire (at least yet — it's been only 6 months for me) to be like Salesforce.