Engineering driven culture, with strong top down value system. Hidden gem. - Head of Marketing Circonus Employee Review

5.0
20 Feb 2018
Recommend
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Pros

In my view Circonus is the quintessential startup even though it's been around for many years. There is great room to explore and try new methodologies, which is not something I have had access to historically. If you want to test and learn, in a safe space, this company is for you. If you need an army of people to get work done on your behalf, look elsewhere. You will be given some latitude to apply your skills in a complex and highly technical space, but you will need to step up and execute. So, if you're looking for a think tank, this isn't it. If you want to work in a place with solid values (which to me means, that leadership is made up of people with sound mind and good intentions who will stand beside the team when the going gets tough) then give this place a try. Also, if you're an engineer, the team is super solid. The founder is still heavily involved in the day to day operations so it's a great way to learn from not only a strong team, but the folks who built the product from the ground up. Also, the supporting teams are very receptive to engaging with engineering to support general understanding of the tech.

Cons

It's a small company with a majority of its staff working remotely, if you aren't comfortable working in a quiet space (which most of the time is what the office is like) then you should probably work somewhere else.

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5.0
16 Jan 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The monitoring domain is full of unsolved problems. In particular when it comes to data analytics. IT operations is getting much more complex, and long standing system modelling and prediction problems are still unsolved in the domain. Circonus brings some of the most powerful data analytics methods to the table, and is dedicated to advancing the status-quo even more. As a data-scientist it's a very interesting place to be (if you like hard problems). There is an incredible amount of low level system engineering knowledge and competence in the company. Core components are written in C, work on multiple UNIXes, and are crazy performant even on mediocre hardware. I have profited a lot from open sharing of ideas, and general willingness to help. I learned a lot since I started here. No bullying. No blaming. No ducking away. There is honest dedication to delivering value to the customer, from the management to the engineers. The CEO even contributes code himself. True "lead by example".

Cons

Expect to work independently. Expect to deal with large grown code bases. Expect to read a lot of code. Small company.

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1.0
5 Aug 2024
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Pros

Very little only some of the people I worked with

Cons

EVERYTHING, they have a very limited number of customers, for the first year I worked there we no one could tell me what we did because we didn't have a viable product. Last the new VP of sales (2022) may be the worst human being I ever met

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