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Working with Splunk through a contractor was an enriching experience that felt wholly integrated into the Splunk culture. Although I was technically a contractor, my day-to-day life was indistinguishable from that of a Splunk employee. My boss was a Splunk employee, and the company managed, hired, and fired us, making the experience genuinely immersive.

The culture at Splunk was vibrant and supportive, and I truly enjoyed collaborating with my coworkers and peers. It felt like a great place to work, with plenty of opportunities to learn and grow. I eventually left for personal growth reasons, and it coincided with a period of layoffs in my division.

Despite the challenges, Splunk remains a fast-moving behemoth, and I cherished my time learning and growing within the organization. I highly recommend Splunk for those looking for a dynamic and engaging workplace.

Management is young, inexperienced, and untrained.  Massive growth in a short time frame led to many technical employees promoted without the correct skills to manage.  Company is therefore led by a contracted third party company (also young and clueless) that is only interested in keeping their contract.  Management is not interested in solutions.  Lack of experience results in extreme insecurity among management.  They hired and fired four veteran contractors (for a long-term contract) within a month. This is not a place anyone, particularly a seasoned contractor, should be.

While it is pretty impressive at HQ, remote employees (and there are a lot of them) tend to be forgotten.  Management at Splunk is hit and miss as well.  There is a lot of "previous company nepotism" for incoming managers.  Many of the organizations have large swaths of people that have worked together at previous companies.  While that's ok for easy relationship building, it also builds a clique that is difficult to work yourself into, especially if the team is spread out nationally or globally.

As is normal with most companies, growth is Splunk's main focus.  However, recently, that growth initiative has been met with releasing products that aren't ready, and forsaking many small customers for that BIG WIN.  Like I said, this is common,  but still something that is difficult to work in.

If you are driven and willing to make the necessary move to advance your career; you will be successful within and outside this company. They give you a platform to control your own career. 

The hardest part of the job is that you are 100% remote. If you do not have a self starter mentality and need micro management this is not the company for you.

The best of my job is helping my customers to be success and building their trust. I addition to doing the community service. Also, management at like real people and you can have open conversations. You don't have to worry about passive aggressive management.

Here's the deal. Splunk is a good company that offers great pay and has a terrific product. Anyone looking at this company would overall make a good decision. Problem is the product is so expensive most SMBs can't afford it. Which makes the actual deal won percentage very very small. The sales management is made up of all the cool kids and if you're not in “the click” it's pretty obvious you're not getting promoted despite performance. 

But, it's coming from a former employee so take all this with a grain of salt. My opinion. If you have other tech jobs options, go there

I have to say the people are what make Splunk amazing. Sure, it's a great product that has a large footprint globally - and it continues to grow & succeed. But the PEOPLE that are hired are by far the best I've ever worked with. Typically sales can be high strung, demanding and overall not pleasant 100% of the time. I've worked in support at Splunk for several years and I've never once had a negative interaction with a person in sales. And I covered globally over the years.....

Splunk was a good place to work, although beyond its core mission it had problems focusing on which opportunities to pursue.  There is no "typical day"; there are typical project cadences, which include planning up-front, then a development and testing cycle, and finally a deployment cycle.

The best part of the job is the people; I enjoyed working with a lot of very bright people, and Splunk had those in spades. On the other hand, if you weren't in the core team, you were never working on anything particularly deep or challenging.

The product is incredible and Splunk is leading the market. This motivates everyone to work hard and get excited to work hard on the product. Engineering is fairly agile and PMO seems to do a good job finding the best processes for the organization. Overall a very supportive environment.

Splunk continues to operate in hyper growth mode with lots of opportunity and upside from a career and stock perspective. However, the pace of change is insanely fast and leadership is getting worse and worse at managing changes across an increasingly growing employee base (ie major reorgs every quarter, teams being created and merged and completely disbanded, new companies being acquired left and right, etc) 

A tech company that resists growing up. Why should they? So far Splunk's making money hand over fist. Commitment to employees and breakthrough thinking is deeply lacking. Very little is thought through by executives or managers. Sales and marketing are paramount; engineers hold much product development power. Diversity is strongly promoted but not fully supported beyond display to the world. Quite a disappointment. Many hang on for the big paychecks and bonuses.

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