Splunk

Employee culture is pretty good and relaxed. Many employees have families or other non-work responsibilities, so the work-life balance is good.

Benefits are decent, and PTO is flexible.

Occasionally, there are new directives that are interesting to work on. If you want a challenge, you can find things to improve or solve.

If you do the above, career progression is fantastic. Almost everyone I've worked with that has been with Splunk for a while has been promoted. While this may lead to inflated levels, it's great for the individual.

There are still some pretty smart people here, though many others have left.

Good pay for the work required, if all you're looking for is stability.

Diverse employee base.

• Management is 80% bad, 20% good; unfortunately, there is no unified direction.
• Occasionally, there are crunch periods due to management's poor planning.
• PMs are below average and have no common goal for the product. High churn rates mean directives change every 6 months or so.
• Work can be boring, using old tech. Products are all behind industry trends.
• The company doesn't really have a grand future.

Splunk needs better market research and to hire people with the ability to predict industry trends. We are consistently years late to integrating "future tech" into our products.