Salesforce?
What do you guys think of Force.com? How is the future looking as a Salesforce developer? You guys think it's just a fad CRM platform?
Mmmm force me
The force is strong with this one
may the force be with you.
I've used it in many different applications by different companies and hated every one. It's regularly slow, poorly designed (which may be the client's fault, not Salesforce's). I'm shocked it's as popular as it is
Use it in the right way
If you have bad admins and no architects it is easy to end up with a clunky mess. Most of the deployments I have seen don't leverage the platform core principals and have silod sectioning around the business units that can make a dumpster fire. The well executed instances you may not even realize are Salesforce. Great platform though IMO.
Force.com itself is strong, the base range for senior salesforce developer from 120k to 160k.
What would a Technical Architect make at Salesforce?
Definitely not a fad. Lots of demand for Salesforce devs. But you can aspire to something better than this! No one actually likes using the product but everyone is locked in to it. I feel they're like Microsoft was 20 years ago. A necessary evil.
Salesforce is great platform to build business enterprise solutions. Most businesses complain because if bad implementation or some custom stuff built without correct skill set. And SF skills are hard and expensive to get for business. The platform is easy to learn.now with Trailhead not like others Ms Oracle or SAP used to be reserved for few who get trained and make good living. Anyone can learn and advance their career to admin dev or architect over time
I worked at SFDC in SF in Sales - far better CRM's out there.... but the marketing is solid enough that it becomes the default for many mid-market and SMB companies. Recommend CRM's built specifically for the industry rather than SFDC as it is archaic
Check out Heroku.
Also owned by Salesforce