Combative and Toxic Culture lead by upper management - Engineering Splunk Employee Review

3.0
Feb 8, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

So many great people to work with, lots of cool problems to solve and many opportunities to touch all the modern areas of software development. Pay is very good and the benefits are generous. Work life balance is good.

Cons

Upper management is combative, aggressive and short sighted often putting their own ideas in front of the engineering teams recommendations. Many of them use divide and conquer tactics to pit people against one another. Maybe the most toxic management culture I've ever been involved in. Often it is hard to even come up with a good reason to engage with them except for not wanting to get shouted at later.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

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Cons

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