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New Relic
What's the Company Culture Like at New Relic?
New Relic Employee Perspectives
New Relic emphasizes outcomes over busywork, giving employees clear goals and a direct line of sight between their contributions and the company’s progress. The company’s results-driven culture is designed to make work feel purposeful while ensuring strong performance is visible and recognized.
“It’s not about activity; it’s about achieving measurable goals that move the business forward, ensuring everyone’s effort is meaningful and recognized.”
New Relic approaches LGBTQIA+ inclusion as a cross-functional business commitment reflected in its benefits, workplace policies and culture programs. In 2026, that work helped the company earn a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index for the second consecutive year.
“I am proud to lead the effort to earn this award. Multiple teams contribute to more than 100 questions about our benefits, business practices, and culture initiatives to determine if we are best-in-class in regard to LGBTQIA+ inclusion in the workplace. It’s a huge undertaking and massive accomplishment. As a Black gay man, this is more than a work accomplishment — it’s personal.”
New Relic’s culture emphasizes inclusion as a shared responsibility across teams and regions. That commitment helped the company earn a score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2026 Corporate Equality Index and receive the Equality 100 Award for LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion.
“I am proud of the work that New Relic has done to create an inclusive and welcoming workplace. This accomplishment underscores our commitment both in the U.S. and globally.”
New Relic Employee Reviews
What People Are Saying About New Relic
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Collaborative & Supportive Culture: Feedback suggests colleagues are helpful and friendly with strong cross‑functional partnering that supports day‑to‑day execution. Many teams are described as cooperative environments where peers readily assist each other.
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People-First Culture: Feedback suggests flexible work arrangements, solid PTO, and wellbeing benefits contribute to a humane daily experience. Inclusion infrastructure such as funded ERGs and mental‑health initiatives helps many feel a sense of belonging.
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Authentic & Consistent Values: The Relic Way provides clear behaviors around one‑team collaboration, ownership, customer focus, and continuous learning that are referenced in daily work. Public materials consistently link culture to transparency, integrity, and service‑oriented principles.
New Relic's Benefits
Company or teams have recognition rituals for individual work
Teams use Slack, meetings, and Relicnitions to consistently highlight and celebrate individual contributions.
Employee feedback used to shape policies and strategy
Employee feedback isn’t just collected—it’s acted upon. Survey responses and team input directly shape our strategic priorities and workplace planning.
Encourages autonomy and ownership from employees
Built on trust rather than micromanagement, Relics have full ownership of their work to solve complex problems, drive technical excellence, and deliver real outcomes.
Established employee awards to honor work and contributions
Managers give public shoutouts and celebrate employee milestones
Leaders actively celebrate team wins, work anniversaries, and personal achievements through public shoutouts in team syncs, Slack, and company all-hands.
Managers offer consistent feedback loops
Managers maintain steady 1:1 check-ins and performance conversations, ensuring you always have clear goals, growth guidance, and real-time feedback.
Provides modern technology across teams
Relics are equipped with modern technology, equipment, and AI-forward tools to help you do your best work friction-free.
Provides resources to build team camaraderie
We invest in team budgets, ERG events, and virtual or in-person gatherings to build strong relationships, collaboration, and camaraderie across distributed teams.
Quarterly engagement surveys to gauge employee satisfaction
We use employee surveys to capture continuous feedback on the workplace experience, ensuring team sentiment directly informs our workplace strategy.
Flexibility provided during personal challenges
Has employee-led culture committees
Managers trained on identifying and mitigating employee burnout
Offers an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Offers company-sponsored happy hours
Periodic social gatherings, happy hours, and virtual events give teams informal space to connect and build relationships.
Offers company-sponsored outings
Teams connect through regular social events and celebrations—offering both in-person gatherings at local hubs and virtual opportunities for remote employees.
Offers Employee Resource Groups
We support employee-led ERGs (Access, Rainbow Relics, Relics of Color, Veterans, and Women at New Relic) that drive community, inclusion, and career development across diverse groups.
Offers fitness stipend
Through our NRgize program, employees receive a flexible, recurring paycheck allowance to spend freely on physical health, home office comfort, mental wellness, or personal lifestyle needs.
Offers wellness initiatives designed to combat burnout and mental fatigue
Targeted quarterly global recharge days, mental health resources, and workload management initiatives help sustain employee well-being.
Offers wellness programs
We support holistic wellbeing through flexible wellness stipends (NRgize), mental health resources, and digital wellness tools.
Partners with nonprofits
Philanthropic partnerships and matching gift programs connect the company and employees with impactful nonprofit organizations.
Provides employees with ability to schedule focus-time blocks
Employees are encouraged to block dedicated focus time on calendars and participate in meeting-light or focus periods.
Provides opportunities to volunteer in the local community
Through volunteer time off, our annual Global Day of Service, and dedicated giving funds, we support and empower employees to give back locally and globally.
Works with employees to create a sustainable work pace
Defined policies promoting a professional, respectful workplace
Documented guidelines and zero-tolerance policies maintain a safe, inclusive, and professional environment for all Relics.
Defined values and mission statements
Our core values—The Relic Way—and mission to help companies deploy with confidence and run with intelligence anchor our culture, strategy, and daily work.
Documented operating principles
Our core values—The Relic Way—guide how we make decisions, while our Ways of Working clearly define how we collaborate and operate globally.
Documented policies and procedures to protect employee privacy and data
Engineering team utilizes pair programming
Engineering teams leverage pair programming, code reviews, and shared technical sessions to solve complex problems and upskill together.
Implements team-based strategic planning
Teams map out quarterly goals collaboratively, aligning individual projects directly with overall department roadmap objectives.
Leadership encourages open, transparent debate
Guided by a Challenger Mindset, teams have continuous avenues for feedback to challenge assumptions through respectful dialogue and drive better outcomes together.
Leadership is transparent and communicative
Executive leadership shares company updates, strategy shifts, and performance metrics openly through regular all-hands and Q&As.
Policies promote a low-ego, team-driven culture
We operate as One Team, leveraging diverse perspectives to solve complex problems and achieve shared success.
Prioritizes mission-driven work in decision-making processes
Strategic decisions directly support our mission to help customers deploy with confidence and run with intelligence.
Prioritizes real-world impact of work in decision-making processes
Being Results Driven and Customer Forever guides our choices, prioritizing work that delivers measurable real-world value.
Promotes a people-first, social culture
We prioritize employee well-being, community connection, and active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to foster an inclusive, supportive workplace.
Uses an OKR operational model to clearly define goals and priorities
We use Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to maintain clear strategic alignment, tracking measurable outcomes across all teams.
Utilizes an open door policy that encourages accessibility
Leaders and executives are directly accessible via Slack and occasional open office hours, encouraging approachable, open communication across all levels.
Async-friendly policies, culture that encourage work flexibility
Grounded in an async-first mindset, we prioritize asynchronous communication to support our global workforce, establishing productive collaboration across time zones.
Defined working hours and availability expectations
Anchored in our Ways of Working, teams establish clear core availability to collaborate mindfully across schedules.
Documented overtime policy
Established expectations for communication between time zones
Guided by our Ways of Working, we set clear cross-time-zone communication expectations to ensure global collaboration while respecting everyone's working hours.
In-office days / expectations are defined
For roles or regions with in-office requirements, expectations and schedules are defined for employees.
Offers a remote work program
We offer fully remote roles across many regions, equipping you with everything needed to succeed from anywhere. Remote team members are fully integrated into our culture, projects, and growth.
Provides work from home flexibility
Utilizes a flexible work schedule
Built on trust and autonomy, Relics structure their workday for peak productivity without micromanagement. We focus on outcomes and impact, trusting you to manage your schedule and deliver results.
Utilizes restricted work hours
Driven by our shared ways of working, teams set clear availability guidelines to collaborate mindfully across time zones while protecting your work-life balance.
