Excellent Engineering. Honest People. Great Culture. - Data Scientist Circonus Employee Review

5.0
24 Oct 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Innovative product, that pioneered key monitoring methods (e.g. Histograms) - Deep knowledge of systems engineering - Highly performant in-house applications - Tackle hard engineering challenges in your daily work - High-trust approach to management. Lot's of autonomy - Very honest and ethical work culture - Remote-first company from the start! - Zero discrimination against women or minorities Working at Circonus has been a formative experience for me. It has been a great privilege to work with some of the smartest and most knowledgeable people in the industry. I learned a lot. Thank you!

Cons

- High autonomy requires the ability to tackle hard problems on your own, and find your way around things -- this can be challenging. - Coordination between engineering teams has been difficult, and lead to delays in product delivery - Be aware that this is a small company: Don't expect the stability and processes that you may be used-to from larger enterprises.

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5.0
16 Jan 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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