SolarWinds Reviews

Pros

Free lunch twice a week, snack and soda. Sales driven culture backed by some of the best engineering in the industry.

Cons

Well, we sure do work hard, which means working a lot. Be prepared to put in your fair share in. But the reward is great.

Pros

- Most of the people here are incredibly smart and hard working - Work can be a fun place with peers - There can be great managers

Cons

- Office politics is rampant. If a manager or director doesn’t like you as a person, despite producing high quality work, they won’t acknowledge your contributions and they’ll find ways to punish you - Only promote once a year in the summer - Underpaying employees compared to similar roles at other companies in the Austin market, in some cases the pay discrepancy is as high as $10K+ - Workload is unrealistic and out of line based on salary - People get promoted for the wrong reasons, i.e. threatening upper management or because they’re good friends with upper management rather than merit based promotions - Lack of transparency from upper leadership, constant changing initiatives with absolutely no thought about long term strategy - The good people always leave for more money elsewhere, leaving the less than stellar employees, creating a toxic work environment - 2 weeks maternity leave... what a joke. - “anonymous” employee surveys that aren’t really anonymous. Don’t be honest, you’ll get fired for it - 50% butts in chairs rule around the holidays. 50% of your team must be working in office during times like Thanksgiving and Christmas because CEO came down to talk to people during the holidays and got upset there was nobody to talk to in person, despite people being available remotely. - Exceeding expectations is never good enough. Every congratulations email from execs is followed by a “but you could have done better” message.

Pros

Good pay and good health insurance

Cons

Toxic work environment and no work life balance

Pros

Public company with a strong balance sheet that provides stability and security Strong management that pushes the team to deliver and rewards them for results Well defined culture led by CEO for over 14 years that values hard work Lots of opportunities for growth and learning given the breadth of products

Cons

Public company that has to share a little less information with employees than a private company Company has high expectations from management and employees that clearly some reviewers have found off putting

Pros

Flexibility, plenty of opportunities to develop personal and professional skills, training, and certificates.

Cons

Decision making process sometimes takes long time so you can feel lost in the internal procedures.

Pros

Pre-covid- lunch 2x per week, Soda, snacks, gym.

Cons

No work-life balance at all. Terrible leadership from the top of the company that ripples through the org. Sr leaders only care about their stock.