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
Sep 23, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The other reps you work with in sales can be great, and you bond by being in the trenches together. Products are easy to sell if you take the time to learn them. Nice building, parking is a nonissue, cool sharing a campus with AMD.

Cons

Old school sales system. If you can make it here a year, you can at least lateral move anywhere else. Culturally this place leaves so much to be desired. You basically can’t take time off around Christmas since it’s the end of the fiscal year. You’re asked to hound customers to the point of a reputation being built among the Solarwinds customer base. The CEO is wildly out of touch with what’s happening on the floor below him as clearly neither he nor the investors care about the high turnover rate. The EOM/EOQ stress levels are like nothing you’ve ever witnessed in a sales org. Very limited growth - most ppl only become managers once they quit and come back. Solarwinds has a reputation among other software companies in Austin for being outrageously intense, so once you’ve made it a year, leave.

3.0
Jul 31, 2019

Take the good with the bad.

Recommend
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Pros

SolarWinds is a cool place to work at first. From the snacks, lunches, and sales competitions it is easy to not hate going into work. The benefits are ok, but could be better. There is a decent amount of PTO that you get your first year as well.

Cons

Even though your quota is set quarterly, the management treats each month like it is end of quarter. The management also encourages high pressure sales tactics that not only burn your customers out, but take a toll on the reps as well. Thanks to their high pressure sales culture you will run into a lot of customers and account that despise talking with you. The company tends to micromanage your sales opportunities and go over the top to customers. This shows that they don't trust their sales reps regardless of how much experience you may have. Recently a large number of upper management was either fired, or left the company. This has lead to a lot of internal changes that aren't for the best. The real kicker is the head of the sales organization has never actually done sales. He was in the marketing department.

1.0
Jun 21, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

If you love a steep hierarchy, little cross-team communication (among three chat systems), a vapid culture and negativity everywhere you look, SW is for you.

Cons

Low pay, expensive benefits, dysfunctional management, lack of basic organization skills, poor equipment to work with (unless you're upper management), too many meetings.

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