SolarWinds Reviews

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high growth. Work 100% time on job, very task orientated. Health Care is weak.

Cons

If you want a family and you're a woman, beware, you should look elsewhere. There is NO maternity leave. There is 2 weeks of "parental leave", which is paid, but that's it. Do they really expect a woman to return to work after 2 weeks after just having a baby? If not then, what are her options? Otherwise, you'll have to buy disability insurance and use your PTO.

Cons

Sales reps usually last 3 months before they are fired.

Management is constantly changing.

Sales reps made a lot of money before but those days are long gone.

Everything is "case by case" so there is no consistency to the sales process. Tons of internal conflict.

No one knows what is going on and there is no one to ask.

 Sales reps who do well end up getting fired too.

No work from home and vacations are rarely approved.

Management presses the sales reps to constantly press the customers for daily and sometimes hourly updates on pending deals.

Cons

From time to time you need to deal with a lot of processes

Cons

Just not my steez. Also the quarterly Mega Church inspired pep rallies / motivational speeches from CEO. I suggested they get a marching band or drill team for these events but this like most of my other genius ideas was not taken into consideration.

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Positions here are mostly a revolving door, and the attrition is incredible, from individual contributors, to managers, to VP and C level roles. Morale is pretty low across the board. I'm not in sales, but all you hear is "sell, sell, sell!' with very little sharing of the philosophy or goals of the company, aside from hitting quarterly and annual goals. The energy level is depressing and the culture is rife with adult ADD, bipolarity, childish middle-school backstabbing in its leadership. The CEO makes random decisions and will change the course of how we do business on a dime. One quarter it's this approach. The next quarter, it's abandon that and try this other approach. So many managers, including mine, are manipulative, untrustworthy people only out for themselves. This place is pretty old school. As people walk into the building in the mornings, it looks like that old black and white footage of factory workers during the depression. Typically by Wednesday, I hear people greet each other with "is it Friday yet?" in the hallways or in meetings. Don't expect to be praised for a job well done or promoted with any normally assumed timing if you're looking for a career track. At the end of the day, I think people who are still here after a year are just waiting around for a better job offer, retirement, IPO, or a miracle.

Cons

Meritocracy is a dirty word, to advance at solarwinds you need to have been there "from the beginning" or to kiss rear. After going private there was an overall feeling of not needing to be held accountable anymore... Bonuses have steadily decreased or been eliminated, benefits costs are high, salaries are left off.

Cons

The salary scale is off. Looking at the reviews many of the tech positions are making below average pay where Product Mgrs, Marketing Mgrs, etc are paid very high . For a tech company,this does not compute. The health insurance costs are above average for a company this size. They are moving to an open work environment (no cubes, dividers, just a big open room). Though companies say they do this to encourage collaboration it is really a cost measure that you can squeeze more heads in a smaller space. The company keeps acquiring other companies and this is causing so many issues with trying to work togethr

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There is no culture. Period. HR will tell you they have it, and they have food truck day, and free ice cream, but at the core it does not exist between employees and management. Some teams are better (marketing) but others (sales, IT) are not. If you are looking at a Sales position, plan to be there less than one year, as they burn through staff, and constantly changing hit rates. I’ve never seen a department go through so many staff.

If you are interviewing, ask your interviewer how long they have been with the company. Make sure you can talk to someone that has been there for less than one year. If they have been there more than 3 years, consider that person a lifer, as they are most likely part of the problem with Solarwinds. Folks that have been there multiple years, have fallen into the day to day and are not willing or unable to push teams into different directions. Many times they are even blocked by entrenched upper management.

Other than putting money into development, this company is extremely cheap, since their buyout. We needed additional staff, and quite frankly requests fell of deaf ears. Requests that were suggested were often cheap contractors and interns. It was also unacceptable how long it took to get approvals for new equipment or travel. I had little budget for training. Health benefits have also become more expensive the last few years.

I also found it was very difficult to move up. I could only ask so many times, and even though I felt I gave them every chance, I’m glad I finally took my leave.

The CEO is very inspiring at first, but after sitting in on many all hands meetings, it’s the same boring message repackaged over and over. “Fail often, but fail fast...” (Ex SW employees will know what I’m talking about.) IMO, he only cares about sales, and the next acquisition.

Cons

Zero interaction or clarity from management to employees about direction or culture. Zero company goals (aside from sales figures which most are removed from) . No leadership architecture or room to advance. Confusing product architecture. Focus is on selling and not on creating good products. 2x lunch a week isn’t very good and usually runs out.