And if your company uses SuccessFactors you can see how little they’ve invested in engineering lately.

It always amazes how bad enterprise systems can be. My company uses SuccessFactors and also a thing called Windchill. After seeing how convoluted Windchill is you will think that SuccessFactors is actually quite decent. Kronos is also a great case study in terrible design.

Working at a startup that does b2b software it's pretty clear. "Tail wags the dog" development and placing the highest priority on C-level personal relationships

I think it’s caused by a few things:

- Enterprise software CEOs are more likely to come from Sales than their consumer counterparts.

- Enterprise software has more lock-in. Ones the market is saturated, their best financial move frequently is to milk the existing base rather than improve things. (This is why one should avoid long term contracts like the plague)

It's the old problem where the decision makers never use what they buy. I hear that's also the problem with a lot of medical software.

I know the SAP HANA team got cut heavily.