Pivotal is pretty awesome, definitely on my list of &quot;seems cool, bro&quot; companies. A lot of the criticisms I&#x27;ve heard hardly are a concern for me because everything I&#x27;ve known is that they&#x27;re so busy coding they&#x27;re hardly able to mess around taking submissions from others outside the company.<p>And to be a little cheeky, Pivotal (compared to Pivotal Labs, not the same but still) is nowhere near a &quot;start-up&quot; company by most definitions. They&#x27;re planning for an IPO and are pulling in many millions in revenue like Cloudera and HortonWorks, it&#x27;s hardly possible to keep these plans from being kept under wraps.