SolarWinds reviews

I was hired into an executive leadership role at SolarWinds under the current CEO. While optimistic about the opportunity to turn the business around post breach, I started to realize it was all wishful thinking. 4 of the 6 other executives I interviewed with left the company within months after I started. In less than 6 months I had 3 different managers and ZERO performance reviews or feedback. The product strategies changed weekly. Plans would be set only to be scrapped and new plans introduced. It become clear there was no product plan or vision, just a lot of guessing. Any new ideas I tried to introduce were just met with resistance. And what good work was done was blatantly claimed by other executives. The culture it turns out was corrupt, with only lip service about how much leadership C.A.R.Es. I was happy when I left, and felt badly for the people who remained. The employees are very good, but they can not succeed with such poor leadership. And if customers knew how poorly the company is managed, I think they would leave even faster.

The management team is deeply dysfunctional. After a few MBRs, it’s clear that while the C-level does a lot of talking, there’s no real action plan to unify the product portfolio, implement modern marketing tactics, or address customer churn. The Sales team’s approach hasn’t changed in a decade, the new marketing leader is more focused on impressing the CEO than driving results, and while the product team tries to innovate, they lack corporate support. Our channel strategy is inconsistent and lacks direction (strategy is good but execution is not there)