New Relic reviews

When I first started at New Relic few years ago, it was a really great place to work. I worked on very diverse teams who created great work and supported each other. Over the course of 2-3 years, this all changed, and the creative, supportive, and diverse culture was replaced with a culture of gaslighting, passive-aggressiveness, and promotion of the loudest, most forceful person in the room. As the company has had worse and worse stock earnings, there has been more and more pressure for employees to basically shut up and do their jobs. The irony is that the company is in this position because of terrible decisions made by Lew and executive leadership (the ones that are still there after so much executive turnover) about the product, and not because ICs and managers are actually attempting to hold them accountable Avoid the drama. You'll never be good enough in the company's eyes, and you'll just be a tool to make Lew money.

Company leadership seems to be going downhill. The updated user interface was released before it was really complete; then more recent goals have had numerous teams working lots of extra hours. There have been a few rounds of layoffs, some very quiet that weren't even announced within the company, and then a pretty messy, hastily-executed one (in the middle of COVID-19, no less) where the reliability organization was gutted along with random people from other teams. Every time I hear anything about how things are going from my former colleagues who still work there, I'm more and more glad I was laid off.