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From the latest careers section looks like Gary looking to replace the real needed jobs with talent from costs rica and Poland. You can get anyone to fill sales and CS.
I used to manage there. half the jobs could be filled with people fresh out of college or interns. they're only there cause a bunch of economic buyers bought the only product on the market and many got stuck with it with vendor lock in. if you're not technical there, your days are either numbered or you better move into something that is actually needed.
need to clean house in mgmt. too many layers. they are very well aware. lots of overlap, but common with a confused company.
splunk has a ways to go before it become stable
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The mgmt at splunk are filth. They know it. They’re like 1/10th the size of real tech companies but managed to gobble up a ton of incompetent “ist” mgmt. HR can’t even keep track of how many people have been abused by the blob mgmt. don’t worry. We got our eyes on you little blobs.
Keep in mind. Splunk in the past never did major layoffs because they would continually fire people throughout the year. These firings were based on retaliation for exposing misconduct or uncovering of issues related to employee incompetence. The fact that they're specifically doing layoffs in the last 2 years is because they have to squeeze every dollar to make their earnings reports look good.
I don’t work there any more but when I looked on the careers section there were no more openings for my old role and other roles were being sent to Costa Rica. That new CEO, forget his name, only has to answer to shareholders. You know how you make them happy, lean the org out. Not for nothing, splunkers making about 40-70k more than the industry so it will be his job to get people in line. Happy Splunking!
Was mentioned on weekly town hall as starting with one department and rolling across others. Sad. Constant layoffs terrible for morale.
Layoffs will come after planning, so expect them in early oct. As someone in accounting, I expect a RIF of 5% across the company, function agnostic.
I don’t doubt it. Bloated at many levels. Last I heard from someone who is still there they were cutting some sales and customer success and reducing support salaries. Sol and sales eng salaries as well as they are about 40% higher than market average.