Declining culture, worst middle management - Senior Software Engineer Rubrik Employee Review

1.0
26 Apr 2025
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Pros

Good benefits free cab and food

Cons

Many brilliant engineers. If you hand select candidates from IIT and NIT that's a given. Most do not stay beyond couple of years and the reason could very well be the absolute incompetent middle management layer. There have been several questions raised internally on what's the hiring bar for managers and leads with no real response at any time. The result is a management heavy org where many of the leads and managers have zero technical skills or strategy. They neither have a shiny college to their name nor any significant past company experience. They will work(?) like the worst employees at service based orgs, strategize as if stuck in the 80s, you will wonder how they got in and also if they can manage to get in anywhere else other than here. Their word is law and any kind of questioning or new ideas are not welcome. Entire time will be spent firefighting customer issues that come in like an avalanche due to no strategy in place leading to severe burnout. Ratings/promos are based on how well you get on with your superiors(read satisfy their ego) vs your actual contribution. There are rampant cliques and groups based on language and region and everyone turns a blind eye to it. DEI also includes regional diversity but that's not the norm here. Enter open favouritism and biases brushed under 'fairness above all' sermons. If at all you happen to join this place ask : +If your manager or lead is technical, what's their background and credibility? +What's the roadmap for the next 6 months atleast +What's the regional diversity ratio in your team The founders are genuinely excellent people and their vision is truly admirable however even after several objections if people fail to see what's not working in your culture then one can't really hope.

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5.0
18 May 2026
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Pros

Amazing work culture, actually cares about employees

Cons

Nothing, i loved my time here

2.0
21 Apr 2026
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Pros

Marketing team wise, there's definitely a culture of hiring marketers who are team players. One of the best pros, everyone on the marketing team genuinely will lean in and get things done. Most are very personable and very likable.

Cons

Marketing leadership The entire marketing leadership team is inexperienced and it very much so shows. They don't provide much guidance if any, and the amount of "go figure it out" attitude for the middle management layer is insane for a company of Rubrik's size. This team values quantity over quality at all costs. The answer to everything is let's boil the ocean and the cascading effects of that strategy have everyone in marketing on edge. Marketing leadership has created a culture at Rubrik where they've made marketing the scapegoat across other departments, all while the marketing team is severely understaffed. Marketing can never push back against other departments (product, sales, partner teams) against any ridiculous requests. Anytime ANYone from an outside department say anything remotely negative about marketing, with or without context, it's considered a "no-no" and its not long before that marketer is pushed out. Raises, promotions Next to IMPOSSIBLE in marketing. Rubrik thinks they are big tech. They don't give promotions on titles. Countless people leave as a result. All middle management at Rubrik would be a level up basically anywhere else given their scopes. Pushing employees out of the company The amount of push outs at Rubrik is insane. In my tenure there, there were countless high performers across multiple teams, who were high regarded and rewarded in year 1, then pushed out in year 2. Some former employees have sued and won. The culture for Rubrik here is awful, they treat employees terribly unless you're in the legacy Rubrik club that still wants the company to act like a start up. Newsflash, you're a public company, start acting like one.

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