New Relic reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(1,468 total reviews)
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65% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

New Relic has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,468 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The New Relic employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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5.0
Dec 9, 2012

Couldn't imagine a better place to work in Portland

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Feels like a startup but the benefits and stability of a larger company - Engineering driven culture from the CEO, to the managers, etc. Everyone writes code. - All of our users love the product. Watching the positive response on Twitter after feature releases is an amazing feeling. - Get to work for a fast-paced SF startup while living in Portland. Everyone takes work/life balance seriously. - We deploy every day -- everything moves fast

Cons

- Complicated code base, some technical debt problems from growing so quickly

5.0
Oct 30, 2012

I love it here

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Pros

I've been here a few weeks now, what brought me here was a number of things which I can say have panned out pretty well so far: * I wanted to be challenged as a manager, to grow my people-wrangling skills * I wanted to be exposed to different languages/platforms (yay polyglots) * I wanted to work on a product that I actually cared about * I wanted to work with a lot of people that I could learn from, who would take the time to help me * I wanted to work with startups, but avoid sweatshops * I wanted to be someplace where developers are first-class value-creators, not "IT" * I wanted to work with really nice people New Relic was a little bit of a happy accident for me. I was a customer of them first, and ran across a job posting for which I applied, but didn't get the job. They liked me enough to find me a different role, and I am thrilled to be here today. I have been really impressed by the folks here and I've run across at least a half-dozen folks here that have said, "this is the best place I have ever worked." It's really hard to not feel good about being here. There are loads of little things that make this place great, like how everyone has lunch together every day, or how looking at laptops/phones is banned in meetings, or how you are expected to go to meetups/dev conferences so long as you adjust your schedule to not overwork when you do. I continue to be awed - they really want people to be happy and take the whole life-work balance thing seriously.

Cons

I suppose the only major negatives I can think of are that the current office is a bit of a sardine can as we are growing rapidly, but we're moving into "big pink" at the end of the year - we'll have a ton of space there. Also the technical ramp can be fairly extensive, especially for the folks working on the core (saas backend) portion of the product. The executive team is staffed with engineers that are very experienced in the domain, so there's no room for "hiding" late projects or poor products. There is a very experimental culture, so we are constantly trying lots of new things with how we do everything from releases to status reporting to seating arrangements. I like that sort of thing, but it's not for everyone.

5.0
Oct 22, 2012
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Pros

Customers really love the product! Excellent engineering work environment, NR expects 40 hrs a week and that you will take the time to leave software better than you found it. Low meeting-to-work ratio, rapidly growing with lots of opportunities to grow, management that is focused on long-term cultivation.

Cons

Evolving office process and team structure due to ongoing growth can leave you feeling like things are constantly adjusting. If you're comfortable with that, great!

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