SolarWinds reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,463 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 1,463 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
1.0
Feb 15, 2021
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Pros

Teaches you a lot about sales and what a multinational tries to do. How they squeeze all the revenue they can from their customers without giving anything back. Constantly asked what can they do to help you (but then never actually follow through or guide you) Will teach you not to care about anything but sales.

Cons

Grinds you to a pulp and makes you hate yourself. Be prepared to never stop working and made to feel terribly guilty if you try and take time off. Be the punching bag for unobtainable sales targets No true mentoring due to Coercive management style Disrespectful Sales Targets change every 3- 6 months. Once my targets changed and not I was not even notified. Told to push your customers to buy right now even though it's not in your or their best interest. Management doesn't care about you. Have to fight to be paid the right amount every month as commissions is always wrong.

2.0
May 3, 2016

Living in the past

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Pros

The pros are what most product companies have - flexible timing, good pay, free lunch and snacks and whatever most of todays product orgs have to offer. There is a good learning curve because of all the products they have, but only if you are willing to learn. Pay is good

Cons

Promotions and HQ visits are for people who baby sit their manager's kid and pass on news. There are undeserving people who got promoted more than 3 times during their short career only because they had the ability to pass information about what happens within remote teams to the boss and was friends with the managers child. They built a great product long ago and are still living in that old glory surviving on pushy sales and ads. The products have no innovation and are stuck in bygone era. Layoffs are the norm - you can get fired any time. I have seen good employees get fired for no reason! The top management is never reachable. They are just management whose strategies worked at some place, sometime in the past and are still living in that old glory. I have no idea why the rest of the top management is still there.

2.0
Jul 3, 2015

"The Power to p**s people off"

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Pros

Met some great people. Lunch catered once a week

Cons

- Management haven't a clue - most have never managed before and try to enforce a "model" that is not a model at all, it is just harassment! Thats what Solarwinds want you to do, constantly bombard people with calls and mails until they purchase the product! Morale is non existent - most staff have had enough of the threats sent out via mail and face to face. This is the reality. You don't hit target, you are fired! Politics - in every workplace, but Solarwinds take this to another level. Management have their favorites, and at times you have to wonder how these people are still working there...It's because all these favorites get the best leads. Dont dare call them out on this, because as you guessed.....you WILL be fired! You are not a person when you work here, you are just a number - do not get comfortable, do not look at this as a career move! If you want to make good money, in a short period of time, by all means work here - but be prepared for the harassment, threats and crap that comes along with it!

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