New Leadership Is Horrendous - Principal Recruiter Splunk Employee Review

2.0
Jul 18, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Pay - Benefits - Work Life Balance

Cons

- Zero opportunities for promotion. - Internal opportunities are limited. - New leadership and ELT are clueless and don't care. - The talent acquisition leadership is absolutely tone deaf. They took a great org and demolished it. They implemented new tools and processes that are horribly time consuming and make no sense. The VP and TA Director have no idea how to recruit. They are very cutthroat and will throw you out the door if you don't agree with them and play the politics game. They have no interest in getting to know you or defend you. They will constantly call you out and take the business's word over yours so document everything!!

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5.0
Jul 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- 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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4.0
Jul 15, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great team and culture dynamic across multiple departments

Cons

Team reductions and restructuring caused a lot of confusion

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