SolarWinds reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(1,458 total reviews)
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Sudhakar Ramakrishna

78% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

SolarWinds has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,458 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
Mar 29, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some good people at the company, lunch twice a week, products are well regarded in the market

Cons

Where to start? Your job is constantly threatened if you aren't hitting daily and weekly numbers, the managers are taught used car sales tactics, and some of the directors are completely clueless. They have just been promoted because they were either favorites or have been with the company long enough. The VP's are a complete joke and add no value to the organization, especially in sales where they provide no help other than to ask people where specific sales are. The CEO is completely inappropriate, yelling across the floor, forcing people to work ridiculous hours on days like Christmas Eve, and sending out emails pushing his Christianity agenda with bible verses and quotes. Favorites are played across the floor, so in order to hit the quotas, you have to be a favorite and receive online quotes from your manager or your director. If you aren't one of their favorites, you will struggle. Rules are bent for numerous people- for example, one rep was allowed to go on the Club trip last year and named rookie of the quarter even though he didn't earn it and had less sales than other rookie reps. He was just friends with one of the VPs outside of work. Club trip is reserved for folks who hit 100% for a full fiscal year, and he hadn't hit a quota or been there for a year yet. If you are interviewing and you ask the recruiter about the company and the glassdoor reviews, he or she is going to lie to you as well. Also, most great reviews you read on here are either written by management or they asked a rep to write a great review on here.

2.0
Mar 21, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good pay and benefits. - Never a dull moment. Fast-moving, challenging project work. - For the most part, team members and group leaders are very intelligent, talented and hard-working. - If you can succeed and thrive within this organization, you will be able to succeed and thrive almost anywhere else due to the nature of the fast-paced, demanding work environment.

Cons

- Factory mentality with regards to employees. Employees are considered and treated as replaceable cogs in the machine. - Taking time off for holidays/vacations is frowned upon. Leadership wants butts in seats. Thus, no work-life balance. - Due to the nature of the company's core business model, marketing is not a valued asset within the larger organization. As a result, marketing campaigns are approached very tactically as opposed to strategically. This leads to incessant start-stops and pointless fire drills. - Preference to hire from without as opposed to promoting from within. - Some legacy employees can be very territorial, which leads to less collaboration at best and hard-walled silos and obstruction at worst.

1.0
Jul 21, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are a lot of great people who work there. They offer freebies such as a catered lunches, snacks, sodas, and quarterly birthday celebrations, meaning free cupcakes. There is access to a gym onsite.

Cons

Where to begin? If you are looking for career growth and development, this is not the place for you. There are a lucky few who have been promoted, but it is few and far-between. Some managers have to go around their supervisors and work solely with HR to get their people promoted. Others are happy to lay off their team members without a second thought. Trying to get training to improve yourself for the betterment of the company is an uphill battle. I worked in Marketing where quantity over quality is key and campaigns need only be "good enough". The customers are inundated with emails, mixed branding messages, and there seems to be no end in sight. There is no work/life balance. The CEO said repeatedly once employees walk though the door their only thought should be how to grow SolarWinds. On an incredibly bad weather day, when schools were shut down, the CEO emailed the company to say the Austin office would still be open. If employees could not make it into the office, they needed to talk to their managers to make sure they had 8 hours of work to do at home. If they didn't have 8 hours, the CEO said they needed to take vacation time

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