Judging by Cisco's acquisitions so far, I can't say anything good about this one. That would be a nail in the coffin for Splunk. I'm just thinking, is it better for me to look for an alternative now, or wait a little longer and see what happens next? — read more 

My personal opinion is that neither Splunk nor Cisco will be better off if a buyout happens. Moreover, it is not at all clear to me why Cisco's leadership thought that a takeover of Splunk was a good idea. Any thoughts?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/12/tech/cisco-splunk-takeover/index.html Network gear maker Cisco (CSCO) Systems has made a takeover offer worth more than $20 billion for software maker Splunk (SPLK), The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday... — read more 

Any thoughts about the email? Why do they choose to do that?

Seriously cannot believe that Doug brought such narcissistic people to Splunk! Out of control egos who clearly give two craps about us

it is completely and utterly convoluted with friends hiring friend who are hiring friends and hiring their friends. EVERYWHERE

We still don’t have a real CEO and no one cares. All management is broken

I'm out.

I will join splunk in EMEA South shortly. Any feedback about the team ?

Is it true there might be some cuts in the next few weeks?

I barely somehow lasted two years here. I tried to learn as much as possible and ignore all the bad vibes. In the end, the only thing this company is good for is to serve as a stepping stone toward something better. I don't know anyone who didn't... — read more 

The reason I intend to give notice in a few days is management. I worked in a few other companies that had poor and unprofessional management, but here it is even worse. If we were to do a survey, I believe management would be the number one... — read more 

I'm interested in what you think: is there any hope that the new CEO will make things better or is it that for things to improve in this company the toxicity levels need to be reduced?

I work as a renewal specialist for another technology company and was approached by a recruiter to work at Splunk. I was excited because the pay is $8K higher than what I make currently but have concerns after seeing the stock price (and comments on... — read more 

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Does anyone understand what splunk's partner strategy is ???

What happened to our CEO

Vaccine mandate exit December 3rd? Are any of you contractors or FTEs affected by this? What’s going on? Even 100% remote workers, contractors, are told they need to be VAxXed. Ridiculous.

favoritism, politics, self-sabotaging narcissism

It is insane and not sustainable what is happening across our company. These leaders are creating so much churn and chaos that is like nothing I have ever seen. Board wake up! The AWS leaders are acting like the joined some massive AWS wannabe and... — read more 

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/leadership/pamela-fusco-joins-splunk-as-ciso.html Shawn Bice By Shawn Bice August 23, 2021 The importance of a strong security posture has never been more evident. It is instrumental within organizations and... — read more 

I worked in IT making $140k plus a measly 15 to 20% bonus and "bogus" stock options. My next job made me $100k more plus much better benefits. They're cheap as *u-k. At Sp--k i had to work 14 hour days from morning to evening and into the morning... — read more 

3 execs from AWS joined they are the President and Chief Growth Officer, President of Products & Technology, and Chief Product Officer. They thought they could make serious money because AWS doesn't pay well. How will they make a single tenant... — read more 

Your company hired a chunk of the problem management from my company and they brought their problem employees with them. Thank You

Is this normal here

Credit: https://www.manatt.com/insights/news/2021/manatt-represents-splunk-in-early-exit-from-700-sa Manatt real estate counsel Ray F. Triana advised San Francisco-based data analytics and technology company Splunk Inc. in divesting the... — read more 

Everything. I don’t read a lot of good things about the company anymore and just got an offer and am trying to decide. Nepotism, politics, lawsuits, WLB, CURRENT pay.. all of it

The CEO, CFO, and entire board of directors are sued for securities fraud and insider trading. This is because of lying aboutvthrir Q3 2020 earnings and related to company's failed cloud transition that customers don't want subscription service and... — read more 

After 4 years and vesting stocks and 401k flees after failing to build a cloud native platform.

It's terrible when the company has a failed cloud native strategy and doubles down on on-prem hosted services when it's a road to nowhere. Sales drop because they've gone through all their salesforce contacts top to bottom and can't close any major... — read more 

Does anybody else feel like the company culture is sinking?

It's not only that people who are in some way related to or friends with somebody in the management are getting spared during layoffs, they're also allowed to barely do anything and leave the rest of us to pick up after them AND with all that they're... — read more 

I don’t know about the rest of you, but our team lost their bet member in the latest round of layoffs. There are so many people who could have been laid off instead of him. People who can’t hold a candle to him in terms of knowledge or experience... — read more 

Stock gains in the last year wiped out. Company is desperate to sell to dying legacy tech giants like oracle and cisco due to failed transition to cloud ad they only do on-prem hosting.

A bounty has been placed to be paid to anyone who has inside knowledge about misconduct at Splunk for reasons related to their business dealings. The bounty is 30% of all monies received for the successful prosecution of executives who lied... — read more 

Word is Doug Merritt is going to get terminated as CEO along with the CTO Tim Tully and the SVP of Cloud who is the CPO Sendhur Sellakumar. These people have are greatly incompetent and no nothing about running a cloud business. Hallelujah.

https://finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/splk-loss-alert-rosen-global-173000311.html Yahoo Finance ACCESSWIRE SPLK LOSS ALERT: ROSEN, GLOBAL INVESTOR COUSNEL, Encourages Splunk Inc. Investors with Large Losses to Seek Counsel Before Deadline... — read more 

Splunk stock crashed 25% today it was overpriced and they were expecting revenues for their on-premise hosting to take off but it hadn't. When revenues peak they have to cut costs more random and unplanned layoffs cumming. Cheerio.

I knew a few people who were let go in the middle of the year and I haven’t heard from them since. I do understand there might be resentment over that and them not wanting to keep in touch. But I would like to hear from those of you who would care to... — read more