Old tech trying to look cool..
Old tech trying to look cool..
They pay decently, and there are a lot of smart engineers.
Old news: seniority is based on time there, not skill, and has a clear good-ol-boys-and-girls-club. It's not a good feeling for most new hires because you quickly realize you have to fit into the 'click' to ever make it there.
No millennial or younger person will choose Splunk if they are searching for a tool like this, so they are bound to die out. Open-source stacks with Datadog, for example, are eating Splunk's justification of being a closed-garden product and business. Old money (huge banks, VCs, etc.) will never let them start to open-source.
They were in the process of changing both their product as well as their form of revenue (cloud instead of local install), and the CTO up and left. This is not a good sign when the CEO is telling everyone this is going to be huge for us, etc.
A couple of months after I jumped, I read that the CEO moved on too. This is not a good signal.
Don't settle for your company 'trying to look cool,' but rather demand that they 'actually be/do cool.' Open source, involve the millennial coding culture, and get away from milking PhD data scientists for their genius, only to give them $2,000 for the company filing a patent that will generate millions. It's not okay, and companies like this will die off quickly.
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