Decent pay, fake culture - Solutions Architect Splunk Employee Review

3.0
Mar 17, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

They pay solid and they have ambitious missions to improve as a company & culutre.

Cons

From the outside they advertise a modern culture. Once in, you see there are a few poor souls trying to make that a reality - but it is still way off. They are doing a cloud migration, but the company culture is still very legacy (tech wise) and there is a lot of discourse between the various technologies they try to jam into one suite. Not sure it will work out well. Their engineering stack/culture needs an overhaul. I would suggest they actually use the capabilities of Gitlab, open source more of their tools, take care of the simple things (packages for apps should not be so hard to find!), and go container/cloud first internally before you expect customers to.

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5.0
Jul 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Excellent work life balance and competitive compensation. - Strong benefits and talented, supportive colleagues. - Industry leading technology with an established brand. - Opportunity to work with large enterprise customers and travel when needed.

Cons

- Since the Cisco acquisition, leadership quality and sales execution have noticeably declined. The culture has shifted from customer success to excessive focus on spreadsheets, dashboards, and internal metrics. - Internal politics and favoritism have become increasingly apparent, creating inconsistent opportunities across territories and reps. - The Splunk / Cisco integration remains fragmented. Sales motions, product positioning, and incentives are not aligned, making it difficult to execute effectively. - Cisco sellers are still not consistently incentivized to sell Splunk, creating unnecessary friction between teams. - Lack of experienced SE resources makes running successful PoCs difficult and slows sales cycles. - Account Executives are increasingly treated like overlays rather than owners of their business. - Product innovation has slowed, with a greater emphasis on packaging and licensing changes instead of meaningful platform improvements, while competitors like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks continue to execute aggressively.

3.0
Jul 14, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good product branding AI focused

Cons

Expensive product Turnover Churned territories

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