Growth - it hurts so good - Senior Team LEader Splunk Employee Review

5.0
Jan 3, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- 40% revenue growth at a $2B+ scale! (Not so common folks) - Game-changing product - Solid Leadership at the top - GREAT pay - July 4th and December Holiday weeks off every year - Every opportunity to learn if you want to

Cons

- Growth and change are hard. Lot's of details change quarter to quarter. (This is the price we pay for one of the biggest enterprise tech opportunities on Earth right now, FYI) - When you hire 1,000 people in a year, some will inevitably be the wrong fit. We are feeling this now. - Hard to fire under-performers - There are a lot of entitled people who don't like to work hard or better themselves. It is hard to fire these people. (See bullet above)

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Splunk Response
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We really appreciate your very thoughtful feedback on your amazing career at Splunk. We are striving every day to protect and preserve our culture while we grow as a company. And ensuring our long-term veterans like you help us get there is extremely important. If you have any feedback on working at Splunk, you can email us at openconversation@splunk.com. - Peter Vogt, Employee Communications

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- Excellent work life balance and competitive compensation. - Strong benefits and talented, supportive colleagues. - Industry leading technology with an established brand. - Opportunity to work with large enterprise customers and travel when needed.

Cons

- Since the Cisco acquisition, leadership quality and sales execution have noticeably declined. The culture has shifted from customer success to excessive focus on spreadsheets, dashboards, and internal metrics. - Internal politics and favoritism have become increasingly apparent, creating inconsistent opportunities across territories and reps. - The Splunk / Cisco integration remains fragmented. Sales motions, product positioning, and incentives are not aligned, making it difficult to execute effectively. - Cisco sellers are still not consistently incentivized to sell Splunk, creating unnecessary friction between teams. - Lack of experienced SE resources makes running successful PoCs difficult and slows sales cycles. - Account Executives are increasingly treated like overlays rather than owners of their business. - Product innovation has slowed, with a greater emphasis on packaging and licensing changes instead of meaningful platform improvements, while competitors like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks continue to execute aggressively.

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Cons

Expensive product Turnover Churned territories

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