Most Disgusting Place to Work - Anonymous employee Splunk Employee Review

1.0
May 30, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The benefits are good enough.

Cons

An extremely hostile and chaotic workplace with everyone stabbing other employees in the back to cover up their own mistakes and shortcomings. The environment is an uncontrolled and disorganized startup still which they hold onto even though this has been a publicly traded company for years. The company has both young and older employees but the same theme is that most of them are inexperienced and unqualified for those roles, this leads to many mistakes and lost time and money and technical debt that they can't get out of. I've seen and experienced first-hand harassment by managers and common workers who go on the attack not because they've been attacked but to cover up their mistakes and shortcomings. The management doesn't hire qualified people but their friends from other failed companies that they've brought in to turn the company into a cesspool of incompetence and in-fighting. The unqualified employees who cover up their mistakes and fight with others do so because they want to vest their RSUs and make money that's why they're so aggressive with everybody else.

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Splunk Response
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Appreciate the feedback. We're sorry to hear that your experience at Splunk did not live up to your expectations. Feel free to reach out with any further comments. You can contact us at openconversation@splunk.com. - Peter Vogt, Employee Communications

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