"Splunk just laid off the entire enterprise security sellers and observability teams. Only core reps are sellers."

Any truth to this rumor?

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Yes, 100% true. Executive leadership sent out e-mails about this reorg last week, and addressed it on the Town Hall as well.

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Hate to hear this… Best of luck to all those let go.

They’re supposedly creating an “Advisory” team and moving as many people from the reorg over to this new team as possible. We shall see

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For context - I was interviewing for a Discretionary BDR with them. Got ghosted late the process and used my connection inside to find out the truth. His manager left for a startup mid interview, this explains some of that

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