Pros
Some say it's great to have Solarwinds on a resume. I suppose it's like surviving your first year of the apocolypse. If you make it, your better for it and can make it anywhere. Most of my co-workers are good, solid people. Like a lot of Austin tech companies, they feed you lunch, two times a week. Kuerig coffee machines in every kitchen with k-cups, tea, also sodas and snack carts. The building is really cool with modern design, and the campus is attractive. Apparently being a private company is a "Pro".
Cons
Positions here are mostly a revolving door, and the attrition is incredible, from individual contributors, to managers, to VP and C level roles. Morale is pretty low across the board. I'm not in sales, but all you hear is "sell, sell, sell!' with very little sharing of the philosophy or goals of the company, aside from hitting quarterly and annual goals. The energy level is depressing and the culture is rife with adult ADD, bipolarity, childish middle-school backstabbing in its leadership. The CEO makes random decisions and will change the course of how we do business on a dime. One quarter it's this approach. The next quarter, it's abandon that and try this other approach. So many managers, including mine, are manipulative, untrustworthy people only out for themselves. This place is pretty old school. As people walk into the building in the mornings, it looks like that old black and white footage of factory workers during the depression. Typically by Wednesday, I hear people greet each other with "is it Friday yet?" in the hallways or in meetings. Don't expect to be praised for a job well done or promoted with any normally assumed timing if you're looking for a career track. At the end of the day, I think people who are still here after a year are just waiting around for a better job offer, retirement, IPO, or a miracle.