SolarWinds reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,459 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 1,459 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
Dec 5, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free food every Wed. Free snacks and fruit.

Cons

The sales attrition rate in this company is absolutely insane. Senseless pressure is permanent even for the top performers. Money isn't good at all as the company tries really hard to pay you the absolute minimum they can. Targets are made up and set so high that nobody but a handful of people (5 out of 45) achieves them, even though you grow your markets quarter after quarter. You are being paid substandard in the industry even though you generate millions for the company. This truly is the worst sales organization with an approach that is destructive not only to the markets but also to the people. There is no work life balance, you cannot even take your holidays as it's never the right time and you are always being denied. The holiday restrictions are set in the contract, no holiday allowed during the last week of the month, and last 2 weeks end of quarter, no holidays in December whatsoever. Truth is that you cant ever get holidays and have to coordinate with your colleagues. You will end up just piling up your holidays from the previous years. Long story short, avoid this company or regret. There is no career progression at all, awful pay, crazy senior management, illogical strategist and this is just the tip of the iceberg. People leaving the company are all glad they did.

1.0
Dec 1, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Management is so incompetent that you can do anything you want because no one knows what’s going on. Sales job where you sell a highly technical product and there’s no expectation to actually know the products. Great if you’re a half wit sales rep, which SolarWinds hires lots of.

Cons

Quota setting is egregiously unfair across the floor. Management will say quotas were set using account spend and then not be able to explain why someone with your exact same spend got a 100K less quota. That difference being whether you make any bonuses or attain at a respectable level. When questioned, upper management will brush it off and start lying about the way quota was set just to confuse you so you don’t probe more. Upper management has proven vastly incapable of making decisions until it’s too late. VP’s and Directors hide in their offices all day and have little interaction with reps. Which makes so that they never have their finger on the pulse with business and customers. So they continually do outdated, detrimental sales practices. Going back to my other point, NO one is paying attention anyways so these highly paid “leaders” continually go year after year like this.

2.0
Nov 18, 2017

Sales Enablement

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free lunch twice a week

Cons

Everything. HR/training leadership doesn't have a clue how to run an onboarding program, it is simply a matter of greeting butts in seats to fill the positions of the people that the sales managers will force out of the company. Pay is below average and they don't care about you as a individual. No work life balance they expect 10 hours a day and don't plan to take time off.

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