SolarWinds Reviews

Pros

Very supportive team and management

Cons

Nothing, great place to work

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you are doing

Pros

Money is good but it's not worth the mental torture.

Cons

Horrible management. Bullying and abuse is the daily routine. Management cant be approached to help with anything. And if you as a question you are told "you should know that" or its ignored as they cant answer. It's a top down structure for abuse. Forget about holidays as there is never the right time. Lunch is actively discouraged. If you take lunch you are told you are not working hard enough. It's the Solarwinds... way. If you have any concerns or issues you are told to find a new role as you are not Solarwinds material. Run for the hills if offered turnover is crazy.

Advice to Management

No point in offering advice. They know what's going on. And are not going to change the Solarwinds Way.

Pros

There is a Great Management There is a Good Atmosphere The technology is good and interesting.

Cons

The process and the mood is too sales oriented even though it is a tech company A bit repetitive.

Advice to Management

Diversify people's tasks because it is a bit repetitive.

Pros

There is just no reason

Cons

Ignorant management, ignorant minions that suck up to management to ensure bully tactics are working. Vulgar management and little shadows around them. The perfect definition of arrogance and plenty inappropriate smart comments to garnish the arrogance. Apparently everyone who has worked here in the past that has left or been dismissed for not being the perfect human being is trashed and described as a useless... person. So I guess I’m one of them now but thankfully in my new job they understood and a new coworker had 2 friends put through the mincer in that pathetic excuse of a workplace. So my advice to you thinking of joining is “DON’T” and if you’re already stuck there and not part of the inner circle “GET OUT”. There are plenty other jobs that have dignity in the workplace.

Advice to Management

Management??? You mean the excuse for management? No, I have nothing to say, the air I breath is too precious to be wasted.

Pros

"You must enter at least 5 words for Pros."

Cons

EVERYTHING! Your managers, most likely, have been life-long friends, and you'll never be able to fit in unless you die and are reborn one of their friends (so never). They'll micromanage and gaslight you so much that you'll start to question if you've ever done anything right in your life. Management engage in bullying. I guess in order to be a manager, you need to top up your bullying skills.

Advice to Management

Throw the whole management team away and start over.

Pros

During my time in SolarWinds Cork, here are some highlights. Gained experience with excellent products that are industry leading Advanced my career Exposed to new areas of IT Management as the company widened its portfolio Benefited from a positive, fun 'work hard - play hard' culture in Cork and worked among some great people at the top who genuinely care. Experienced a truly fast paced and dynamic... environment which was rarely boring!

Cons

Daily Sales model is a challenge for staff to sustain in the long term and has some negative repercussions throughout the business.

Advice to Management

Following their upcoming 2nd IPO, is it finally time to consider a change at the top..... ?This needs to happen for any significant change to the model and the company to continue to mature...

Pros

This Company has it all. Great leadership in all offices especially in Cork. The culture is valued carefully and they care about their people.

Cons

None that i can think of

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you're doing.

Pros

Friendly people. Nice atmosphere. There usually isnt a problem with working from home when you cant make it to the office. Leaving earlier or during the day for an hour or two usually isnt a problem either.

Cons

Salary depending on your background can be terrible. Management isn't doing a great job at managing the tasks and speading work evenly. Double standards for some people/offices. Support isn't really appreciated even though they say we are, there is very little money for us for bonuses and pay rises are a joke. No time for training/upskilling as management will pile work on top of you.

Advice to Management

Stop looking at the dashboards which dont show even half the picture, look around the office, look at statistics, monitor what people are really doing, and then start dumping work on people who do less than the rest instead of dumping it on people who already work hard. This isnt hard to do, and it can be done even without management accounts as support reps see these statistics and do get frustrated.