SolarWinds Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Environment, knowledgeable, relaxed, and responsible people. And great office. Great work/life balance good salary

Cons

Sometimes just the normal politics

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.

Pros

People, Trainings, Tech stack, work-life balance

Cons

New indian leadership takes Solarwinds to grave

Pros

-Interesting financial bonuses -Cool and smart teammates -Freedom to change teams -Latest technologies in some newer projects -Work/life balance

Cons

-Low pay -Unnecessarry management level -New CEO and new management makes me feel like in a bad Indian youtube programming video -Horrible code quality in core projects -Almost non-existent integration testing, all is just unit tests and then straight e2e test -Lot of manual tests -New and different projects get abandoned fast -Lot of people quitting after Solarburst -You will be moved a lot, to different teams, constantly switching on which product you'll work -Customer support is a part of the work and sometimes, it's just overwheling. The pressure is felt when release is coming and some important customer issue comes.

Pros

Paid medical, dental, and vision. Flexible PTO starting day 1 one of employment.

Cons

Work-life balance can become blurred for some individuals and departments.

Pros

Great company culture and values. Talented colleagues Good work-life balance. Interesting products

Cons

Some turmoils in the top management in past months. Security hack in December 2020.

Pros

- Very good entry-level job after school when starting as a developer, tester, or DevOps career - Good job for Microsoft stack fans - Most colleagues and managers are above the industrial average, some are great - Opportunity to quickly learn a lot, and to meet some great people - Work-life balance

Cons

- Programming sweatshop - Lack of vision or direction on the company, department, or product level - Micromanagement - Weekly changes of priorities, but working in bi-weekly iterations - Bad engineering practices, even if the opposite is declared during job interviews

Pros

Work life balance Great benefits Great culture Free lunch weekly Social events before COVID

Cons

No growth opportunities No other cons

Pros

Good benefits, interesting product, nice office

Cons

Bad culture, no work life balance

Pros

* Work-life balance * Wide range of bonuses * Great company culture * Latest technologies (depends on project you are working on) * Options to work on different projects with different technologies * Meaningfull work for top clients around the world * Challenging work * Good agile development processes * Never ending pushing on improvements and innovations * Various internal and external tech events you can visit * Engineering teams with highly-skilled professionals

Cons

* Sometimes you have to work with really legacy code but its common for many IT companies. * It is slightly complicated to change or improve something bigger especially when you need a budget for that. You need bunch of people to approve your proposals and it is a long process to go through. * Because of some legacy parts, the building pipeline of bigger projects is fragile and can take long time to have all builds successful.