SolarWinds reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,460 total reviews)
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Sudhakar Ramakrishna

79% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

SolarWinds has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,460 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SolarWinds employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
4.0
Sep 1, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I worked in the Austin office and Management has been actively making it a more fun place to work. People that thrive there can handle the fast pace. It is great to work with IT clients because they are professional and courteous. Management presses on you hard, but I enjoyed the challenge and stayed friendly to them and my tenure there was fun.

Cons

You have to average 7 calls an hour in order to keep up with new leads and existing open opportunities. I would stay late sometimes trying to make decisions on which accounts were dead and needed to be closed so I would know how to manage my next day better. Most quarters I noticed only 18% of the salesforce hit quota, but I made 60K without hitting quota and is my reason for 4 stars along with the fact that I loved my teammates and had a blast at all the work events.

1.0
Mar 4, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are still some great, talented, people here.

Cons

There is a massive ego problem at the top levels of IT. They are led by people who haven't touched a keyboard in 10+ years, yet they refuse to listen to the senior staff currently in the trenches. They are chasing a technical vision they don't understand, nor does it make sense, and instead of admitting they need help, they’ve decimated the IT and Security teams. It’s a recipe for a system wide collapse. For a company that was once breached, you would think they would have learned.

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