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Mar 11, 2025

Grafana is not a place to go if you expect to move up the foodchain or be promoted quickly. Grafana has been hiring from the outside nonstop and constantly passing current employees over for growth or promotion opportunities. Change is near constant and they don't give solutions enough training or time to be successful because they're onto the new thing. That being...Read More

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Current Employee

4.4

Feb 27, 2025

Great market fit! The company will dominate the market. Many companies look to alternatives with open standards.

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Current Employee

2.7

Feb 21, 2025

Very interesting company with a great trajectory but take a very short term view on employee's and are quick to make changes even when that may not be warranted. With the many many turn overs in reps and frontline leadership and a new regime in place better watch out to not fall out of favor.

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Current Employee

4.3

Feb 15, 2025

Great training and enablement. Very process driven. Good product market fit. Tough quotas

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Current Employee

4.1

Feb 6, 2025

Great leadership team, strong PMF, best accelerators I've seen in SaaS

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Former Employee

1.9

Jan 24, 2025

This is a white boys' club. Favorites and complete lack of transparency. Marketing is not helpful and doing all the wrong things to support the sales team. Stay away.

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Current Employee

4.3

Dec 27, 2024

Great company which excellent teams in DACH and great leaders

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Current Employee

4.1

Nov 22, 2024

My overall experience is solid, good leadership and the product is a 'need-to-have.'

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Former Employee

3.0

Nov 13, 2024

Very challenging space. Not only are you selling against big competition (data dog, new relic etc.) but you are also competing against your own open source solution.

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Former Employee

2.7

Nov 6, 2024

Solid product market fit. High turn over in leadership. Rep attainment swings broadly, based on the territory your assigned.

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Current Employee

2.7

Oct 16, 2024

My team is an highlight of the role and Grafana has great solutions. However, path to promotion is difficult and quota attainment isn't sustainable. Moving out of the SDR role is difficult no matter what role you're interested especially if you're not interested in pursuing sales. There have been multiple occasions they hire externally or promoting internal...Read More

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Current Employee

4.3

Sep 13, 2024

I highly recommend Grafana to other reps looking for a new role!

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Current Employee

1.7

Sep 13, 2024

The company is growing revenue worldwide very successfully. It’s a great product. Certain regions are really struggling like east and central. The comp model for SEs is standard 70/30 base and variable. The payout for variable is based on territory and region attainment of quota. As a result, the SEs in the high performing regions think it’s great but the SEs in...Read More

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Current Employee

3.9

Aug 7, 2024

Great leadership, great company - growing like crazy. Hard work and very demanding culture so don't come here if you aren't ready to work. BDR has broken culture that rolls into marketing. Be ready to do all of your own PG because you will get little to no support from them.

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Current Employee

2.9

Jul 18, 2024

Good opportunity and strong market fit. Company culture is changing rapidly. Turnover is higher and a new group of leaders is being hired externally.

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Current Employee

2.1

Jul 17, 2024

The GTM org is completely divided, marketing is worried solely on organic growth in OSS and sales has to use a playbook written by the marketing team, which doesn't work. Our biggest competitor is OSS due to little differentiation. Reps who do well don't go by the playbook and focus on competitive takeouts. A ton of focus has been put on kpi/performance tracking...Read More

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Former Employee

3.3

Jul 15, 2024

I've heard things have changed but when I was at Grafana I heard a top earner (female) ask for more consideration for diversity on the sales team during her QBR. The VP of sales told her point blank that that wasn't important to Grafana (CEO said something similar in email a few months later) and "the best person gets the role regardless of gender or race." That was...Read More

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Former Employee

1.4

Jul 12, 2024

Worst company culture and leadership I have ever seen! Employees are “highly encouraged” to write great reviews. Don’t trust any of them, back channel, talk to current employees and do your homework. Sales numbers are not there and the vast majority of the sales team last year did not make their numbers. Smoking mirrors on LinkedIn postings. Beware!

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Current Employee

2.9

Jul 1, 2024

The GTM org is a bit disjointed at times, and performance will impact environment massively. There's pockets of awesome but also a decent amount of chaos, which is expected in an org that has grown massively in a short amount of time. The switch from small startup to a larger org that focuses on scale is showing some growing pains.

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Current Employee

4.7

Jun 14, 2024

Great product market fit, large OSS community, strong leadership, high TAM

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Current Employee

3.6

May 20, 2024

My overall experience is good. It is increasingly difficult to get promoted as the company grows.

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Current Employee

3.7

May 19, 2024

Grafana is a great company. Product is great and because of the open source nature almost every engineer knows about our software.

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Current Employee

2.9

May 18, 2024

My overall experience was good and once employee count went over 1K it became increasingly harder and nearly impossible to get promoted.

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Current Employee

3.9

May 16, 2024

My experience has been great so far and a lot of potential for greater opportunities for net new logos and expansion at existing customer pool.

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Current Employee

2.1

May 16, 2024

This is not a healthy business. The sales culture is poor.

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Former Employee

4.0

May 10, 2024

Wonderful organization to work for. Incredible culture and a really innovative product

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Current Employee

3.1

Apr 27, 2024

Grafana has a great culture but the SDR and sales org is facing some growing pains leaving people feeling stuck

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Former Employee

4.4

Apr 25, 2024

Great product, fantastic engineering leadership and vision. Great base pay and incentives/accelerators. Stellar CRO.

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Current Employee

4.6

Apr 8, 2024

Leadership is best in the business with great product fit that is changing the game in the space.

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Current Employee

2.9

Apr 3, 2024

Grafana is a great company and a great place to work but it is not easy to move up in the SDR org and leadership across teams is often not aligned.

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Former Employee

3.1

Mar 29, 2024

Overall experience was a 3/5. Started great, then quickly became toxic. Huge upside in earnings potential, but that is 100% dependent on 1) luck or 2) having personal connections to Regional Sales Directors (most will unevenly distribute the best accounts / opps, even to reps they are dating). Overall - the sales and executive leadership team are extremely immature,...Read More

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Former Employee

4.7

Mar 21, 2024

Great company, great headwinds, probably going to be a big ipo

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Current Employee

4.3

Mar 1, 2024

Great company and fantatsic being an SDR at Grafana Labs.

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Current Employee

5.0

Feb 16, 2024

The future of observability is Grafana Labs. High growth organization that is starting to disrupt the o11y space.

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Former Employee

5.0

Feb 15, 2024

Grafana has being one of my best experiences so far

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Current Employee

4.9

Feb 2, 2024

My overall experience has been very good. I enjoy working here.

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Current Employee

4.6

Jan 14, 2024

Place to be. Great Culture, Leadership and compensation. Come and join.

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Current Employee

3.7

Dec 25, 2023

My overall experience has been good so far. I enjoy the people I work with. There has been various changes in the comp plan recently.

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Current Employee

4.6

Dec 25, 2023

Truly impressive place with great people and amazing culture. Very demanding, but highly rewarding. Great product fit and great innovation. Very close to competitors on technology. Disrupting the market.

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Current Employee

3.4

Dec 17, 2023

Great company in a crowded market. Enterprise cycles can run a full year to develop. Smart management.

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Current Employee

4.4

Nov 25, 2023

Great opportunity to impact go to market scale and territory growth

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Current Employee

4.1

Nov 15, 2023

Great experience so far at Grafana. Tough job but big upside.

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Current Employee

4.1

Oct 31, 2023

Great company with great leadership. I highly recommend to all!

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Current Employee

3.7

Oct 24, 2023

Really good place to work, would recommend to anyone considering it.

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Current Employee

4.7

Oct 7, 2023

Good experince, I have only been working for 6 months so far but I like it

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Former Employee

4.7

Sep 21, 2023

It was a great experience - strong product market fit and intense culture.

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Current Employee

2.4

Sep 19, 2023

Grafana Labs treats reps love a number on a spreadsheet. Tons of attrition. You either are in the right place at the right time and get a big deal, or starve. Very immature sales leadership.

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Current Employee

2.0

Sep 8, 2023

The interview period was a Weird experience. No contact with the recruiter other than scheduling a call with their Director and manager. No insight into pay, culture, benefits until contract. Almost seems like they were avoiding it until the end This is a big grind. Their management let me know that their biggest competitor is themselves because they operate a...Read More

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Current Employee

4.7

Aug 18, 2023

Great leadership and product. Plenty of opportunity for new territory development and growth.

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Current Employee

4.1

Aug 18, 2023

Great organisations. Pretty fast paced but you will get all the help you need with their onboarding & support.

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