Pros: - Great benefits for healthcare and retirement. - Team members are smart, fun, and great to work with. - Work can be interesting and challenging at times.

Cons: Immediate managers consistently are not considering IC concerns from leadership demands, refuse to listen to the concerns outlined because they don't know how to manage up, and then blame ICs for said issues once leadership sees the issues themselves. It's a terrible way to manage a team by shifting blame, instead of taking ownership and effectively managing expectations with leaders. Some team members have been randomly let go, which is sad. It doesn't appear due to performance issues, as there were no PIPs and severance was given. Perhaps something about shifting blame? Management isn't keen on investing in your career growth; they wouldn't approve reimbursement for certifications. Does that sound like a company you should work for?

Pros: Shut down days are great. Decent initial OTE.

Cons: No career path from SMB -> Commercial -> Enterprise for SAs. Middle management leaves a lot to be desired. Annual comp increases are trivial. Three vastly different products to sell. Security and Observability solutions aren't best in class. Extremely technical and not straightforward to kickoff a POC. Support is a joke, and CSE only engaged with small, month-to-month customers. This makes the SA responsible for all these things. The search solution was a little different; we definitely seemed to have an advantage in that market. I'm extremely concerned now that AWS has released serverless OpenSearch. ESS (Elastic Cloud) can't even autoscale to a larger CPU. Lastly, there's the laying off 13% of the entire org. 90% of everyone in Austin was let go. Company has core values, but those are only optional.

Pros: Work from home, comp plan, comp structure, team culture, great people, amazing benefits.

Cons: I don't really have any cons at the current time.