The AI Index
Back to Cuts
CutAttritionData Software

Splunk

HQ San Francisco, USFounded 2003private otherWebsite @splunk
Composite score
49.9
rank #18 · cuts

#18 Cut. Headcount down 4% over the last 90 days.

Watch Splunk · One email when its rank, headcount or news changes. Mondays, only when something moved.
Head-to-headvs Chroma →vs Granica →vs Hex →vs Pinecone →
Headcount
8.4k
-1.5%
90d change
-3.5%
Funding events (90d)
0
1 all-time tracked
Layoff events (90d)
0

headcount + trends: LinkedIn-tracked weekly series · funding & layoff counts: through Jul 2026 (frozen) + live news extraction

Signals

source: PDL v25
Inferred revenue
$10B+
PDL estimate
Revenue / employee
—
midpoint ÷ headcount
12-month turnover
13.3%
within typical band
Average tenure
3.7 yrs
long — sticky culture
Time since last raise
4y 8mo
runway question

Hiring flow · Splunk

source: PDL v25

Headcount by role

12-month growth · PDL v25
Engineering
3,107
-6%
Sales
1,203
+3%
Sales Engineering
531
-5%
Operations
527
-9%
Support
499
-12%
Analyst
325
-7%
Product
258
-10%
Marketing
239
-8%
Other
744
—

In the news

relevance ≥ 6 · last 180 days
No recent mentions across our tracked sources.
Machine-readablesignals RSSJSON APIAPI & MCP docs

Events

Layoff · 1.52% (134 roles)
Departures in 2024-09: 220 vs 6-mo baseline of 86.5 (2.54× spike). Derived from PDL.
2y ago
Layoff · 2.23% (190 roles)
Departures in 2024-01: 284 vs 6-mo baseline of 93.5 (3.04× spike). Derived from PDL.
3y ago
Funding · post ipo equity · $1.4B
5y ago

Score history

2026-10-19
49.9
rank #18
2026-10-12
46.5
rank #18
2026-10-05
48.6
rank #28
2026-09-28
34.2
rank #22
2026-09-21
33.8
rank #24
2026-09-14
32.2
rank #18
2026-09-07
32.5
rank #17
2026-08-31
38.1
rank #16
2026-08-24
40.9
rank #13
2026-08-17
37.3
rank #16
2026-08-10
20.4
rank #21
2026-08-03
23.3
rank #22