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Amazing Product, Lagging Pay

Principal Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Splunk for 1 year
July 3, 2018
San Jose, California
4.0
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Pros
  • Product is amazing
  • Passionate customers
  • Lots of interesting projects and opportunities
  • Great coworkers & culture
  • Small dev team for a company of our size, easy to know everybody
Cons
  • Benefits + Salary lag behind the really big SV companies.
  • Org structure is weird.
  • Slow development and release model compared to modern software companies.
Advice to Management

I'm not a fan of our last two big acquisitions (Phantom and VictorOps). I don't think we're really vetting these companies, and we're not thinking through how integration will actually work. I agree with the high-level strategy; I just don't think we're executing it.

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