Working at Chef showed me how an org should NOT be run
Pros
Flexibility to work from home, strong product.
Cons
I worked at Chef for a year in the Sales/Marketing department. Unfortunately my experience at this organization was highly negative on all accounts. Marketing runs the show when it comes to relationship with Sales, the team has no idea how to position this product in the market and the amount of internal red tape is unbelievable for a private organization. Chef customers are not taken care of post purchase there is little to no support from the customer success team. The executive team is so far disconnected from middle management and lower level employees, Chef claims to have an culture where employee feedback is listened to yet this was never my experience, feedback was met with phrases such as "why would we change this is the way we have always done things." The product Chef has created is highly valuable and a great solution for Configuration management, compliance and application management. It is a disappointing to see the company continuously struggle with how to position the product in the market and it is a great shame that those in charge are unaware of how their employees are truly treated.
