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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1K reviews
4.0
Oct 11, 2023

SolarWinds Has Been Great To Me

Recommend
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Pros

Many of these reviews are extremely misleading. I came into the IT sales workforce with little to no IT knowledge. If you are looking to kick start your IT sales career and gain insights into every IT vertical, there is no better place to start. In addition they have leaders that match what you put into the job with your opportunity for growth. As in every job there are hurdles that come with growth. You can get out what you put in at SolarWinds. This place has exceeded numerous expectations. 1. earning potential 2. flexibility during hard personal times 3. This is the first place of employment that genuinely cared about my well being.

Cons

There is consistent change that can be hard to swallow some times from an account perspective "if" you pride yourself on relationship building. (in defense) The leaders here have had to navigate a lot in a short amount of time significantly beyond the norm, or economic down turn that every org is currently facing. I do not envy having to make these decisions. I would applaud Sudhakar and Andrea for how they have handled the far from easy hurdles.

1.0
Apr 30, 2023

Going downhill for the last two years

Recommend
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Pros

Get a paycheck every two weeks

Cons

The company that once was on pace to dominate the market has now decided that it no longer wishes to put out good product. The leadership is filled with nepotistic individuals who love the sound of their own voices. They break every promise they make to current employees and you can't trust a word that comes out of their mouths. They also love to add Job's to your plate without expanding your role or your pay. The moto of the company is worth your good employees until they quit then hire someone that has maybe seen a computer once in their lives.

3.0
Jan 23, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great company with large product portfolio to serve the market. Potential to be a great market leader.

Cons

The latest announcement is the CRO leaving. When we had the new CEO joined last year, he divided the sales team, then started bypassing the CRO and started working with all the sales leaders directly and brought his own sales folks and made it frustrating for the CRO, and finally he is leaving. This has been the pattern with many leaders and executives leaving the company over the last several months which is never seen in the company till now. Powerful CEOs make their leaders more powerful. Here it is complete opposite. CEO will micro manage and start bypass and undermine his own team and leave enough traces to tell them that he is the boss. No one is allowed to make a simple decision without going to the CEO. This is visible everywhere, attending all sorts of meetings and making the team wonder what to do/say when he is around. CEO should let the leadership and executive team play their role, otherwise it is becoming ineffective at this stage. CEO is all over the place when it comes to decision making, speaks on all sides, no concrete opinions, leaves the blame to his team and wants to pretend like an ideal human. CEO doesn't know his role/job, wants to be in the lime light and works on what he likes. By demonstrating every day that he is the hero, he is making the company and his leadership team a big ZERO. Another latest twist, he hired a CFO banker who has zero background into a transformer role. Let's watch out and see if this means replacing CFO or another CXO.

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