SolarWinds reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(1,459 total reviews)
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Sudhakar Ramakrishna

78% 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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2.0
Apr 27, 2022

How many punches can you roll with?

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Work life balance was pretty good for me, but the higher up you were in the organization the more that seemed to dissipate.

Cons

SolarWinds is like a dinner roll where someone has eaten out the center but the guests haven't all noticed yet. In this case, new leadership are both the person who ate out the center as well as the people who haven't noticed the center is gone.

1.0
Apr 7, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Not many, the team does like to win i guess

Cons

From the moment you're onboarded into the organisation you receive very little training on how to navigate the organisation, the organisation talks about breaking down silos with the products it sells but its impossibility to get a straight answer out of the teams responsible for responding, it's an organisation of more "no's" than "yes's" on "can we do this?" questions because of fear of repercussions for mistakes. As with anywhere, it's what you make it but the company has a long way to go before they have their staff performing to any defined expectation and collaborating in a way that makes them successful. The structure of the company and the way the sales team are set up, sets the company up to fail. The leadership team AMA's are lip service to folks that are too scared or not qualified enough to ask pertinent questions about the businesses direction and any questions asked with a modicum of intelligence behind them are dismissed or ignored. There's a reason startups in the same sector are leaving the company in the dust. In the last 24 months the exodus of people from the organisation has been staggering to the point that any help requested on products where the owner left the organisation is "just hope no one asks". It's awful. I wish the company luck, it's hard to be motivated to stay when managers are promoted way out of their depth, the great managers at the top admit privately they are hamstrung, and everyone hides behind "rules and processes" that aren't written down anywhere much less defined". The "keep a low profile so you don't get in trouble" ethos is pretty much how the company is run

1.0
Sep 10, 2020

Run, don't walk away!

Recommend
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Pros

They will feed you at all hours so you don't leave

Cons

No compassion for employees. No common sense.

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