You're not a person here; you're a KPI in human form - Sales Engineer Cribl Employee Review

2.0
Dec 17, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great product. Benefits and pay are pretty solid.

Cons

The sales and SE organization at Cribl is heavily metrics-driven, which is pretty common, but it takes it to the extreme—everything you do is measured and tracked. You are now simply a number on a dashboard. Everything from demos to POC conversions, your certs received, content packs created and dozens of other metrics only visible to managers will be tracked. The SE "leadership" wants you to feel the pressure that you could loose your job at any moment irrespective of circumstances out of your control. The 1:1 with your manager will be entirely spent reviewing these metrics with you every week to make sure you feel the pressure. It would seem the main goal of management meetings is to determine who to put on PIPs and manage out to make room for the next batch of candidates to repeat the process with. Finally, the SE leadership will never stand up for you when account executives put all the blame you for missing their quota due to a lack of pipeline generation or their inability to secure meetings.

Explore other reviews about Cribl

5.0
Feb 17, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Really engaged team Leadership team seems to have a good vision Lots of smart people

Cons

There’s a lot of work to do. Definitely a more demanding job than some others

1
3.0
Mar 17, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Tech is still incredible and customers are buying - by far, the biggest pro. The grass isn’t always greener on the other side and there are a ton of startups out there that present a lot of risk vs. a more stable startup like Cribl. There are great and smart people who work here, but a lot are fleeing due to all of the change (per comments below).

Cons

Micromanagement has increased significantly with new rigid processes being implemented. For the tenured sellers here, it feels like we are being treated as if we are brand new to the job. Sales leadership is completely uninspiring, doesn’t show any care for employees and retaining great people Turnover picking up significantly Territory largely determines success Quotas significantly increasing, territories decreasing, and comp plans are much worse this year Path to promotion is not visible

See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All