They promote one big happy family culture, they force feed you Ohana this and that. Below the surface, they are like any other big US multinational corporation, you are ultimately very replaceable. They don't like hearing excuses regardless of territory or patch, you end up in one of the less desirable industries, you are essentially fighting against the tide - whereas if you land on your feet in one of the more lucrative sectors, you are lauded as a sales guru and asked to share your secrets with the rest of the department. I joined at arguably the worst time, given it was just at the start of Covid, so I never got familiar with the day to day stuff, never really got to form or build relationships with colleagues, so it has to be said, I'm coming from an obscure period, but it set the tone for the rest of my tenure there - I would have loved to have joined a year earlier, when things were seemingly great. But alas. At the end of my stint there, my mental health was shot, and I was very clearly struggling, having spoken up on this topic to my then manager, who was only in a managerial position herself for the first time, and was subsequently told I didn't have the mindset to make it in Tech Sales, having highlighted my issues around burnout and mental fatigue in the very same call. The importance of brand is evident in any company, but I've never felt so ostracised than during my time in Salesforce, once you were labeled xyz, you had very little chance of being considered for promo's - there was no way to get off my patch, and I appreciate the whole 'a bad workman blames his tools' concept, but I had various successes when working different territories (to be hired patches for example), where I would do well working on smaller accounts, but then ultimately have them taken back off me when the new hire started, returning to the far larger enterprise patch I had previously been left to rot with, that didn't really have a need for a BDR
