Pivotal
I am a new grad, and have been reached out by the recruiter at Pivotal. What do you guys think about the company and its future? I'll be interviewing for a PM position with the Cloud Foundry team. Also, what do you think about Cloud Foundry?
I’m Pivotal at Amazon. It’s a great time to be a newer Amazon hire!
Not sure why you're talking about Amazon lol
Just a pun. Amazon will be putting a lot of people on Pivot in the next month. That’s their way of laying off, without having to admit it.
Just to clarify, it's not a consulting gig. I'll be joining the company's Cloud foundry team- which works on PaaS (PCF)
You’ll pick up some good habits by working there. I would do it for a year or two if you’re fresh out of school, it will be like getting a masters in software engineering
I work there now and agree: excellent place to get your start right out of school
Bad and worse
Mind elaborating, pls?
Bad leadership, owned by Dell which just wants squeeze cash out of it by any means, no clear vision and future
I may be a little butthurt that they didn’t didn’t move me past their phone screen (before i joined FB), but I think they’re a little confused as to what they’re looking for.
Management is a terrible boy club. You are forced to move teams around every 6 months, which means you will learn something but not deep understanding, and will never be promoted or see a 2%+ raise unless manager is you bud. Low pay, becoming a team lead doesn’t bump your title or comp. You’ll have aggressive pairs who are almost always management’s favorite boys.
Dell, is there another company less interesting than dell?
They filed for IPO back in 2016, delayed IPO every year while raising mega private capital, if that tells anything. Also, peanut worthless equity
Nope, I work at Pivotal. We didn’t file for IPO in 2016.
How do you want to grow as a PM? Think more deeply about the user and use-cases? Meh. If you want to learn how to is pivotal tracker and estimate engineering scope and velocity, it’s great. Also very engineering-centric.
Its a dying company.
More of a slow death
Why is that? From what I hear, It's valued at over $5B and are going public soon.., and have a third of the fortune 100 as clients.