Is CrowdStrike a good company to work for in 2026? A verified read

Q2 fiscal 2027 total revenue was $1.47 billion, up 26%, on subscription revenue of $1.40 billion, up 27%, for the quarter ended July 31, 2026 (SEC EDGAR). Ending ARR was $5.84 billion, up 25%, and 51% of subscription customers used six or more modules, 35% seven or more and 26% eight or more (SEC EDGAR). On the August 26, 2026 earnings call the company put Next-Gen SIEM ending ARR above $695 million, cloud security ending ARR at $905 million and identity at $585 million (The Motley Fool). It has also been buying, with Onum and Pangea closing in September 2025 for $382.3 million in cash combined, Seraphic on February 3, 2026 and SGNL on February 20, 2026 (SEC EDGAR), and on September 2, 2026 it announced an Agentic Identity Provider that brokers short-lived, tightly scoped access for AI agents (CrowdStrike).

The growth side of the record is strong. Net new ARR was a record $332.8 million in the quarter ended July 31, 2026, up 51%, and non-GAAP operating income was $371.6 million, a 25% margin, against $255.0 million and 22% a year earlier (SEC EDGAR). On August 26, 2026 the company guided fiscal 2027 to total revenue of $5,991.1 million to $6,011.1 million and raised its net new ARR growth outlook to about 34% at the midpoint (SEC EDGAR). On hiring, the May 2025 plan that reduced roles by approximately 500 positions was reported complete as of July 31, 2026, and full-time headcount was 10,698 at January 31, 2026 (SEC EDGAR). Ask where your function sat in that reduction.

One reduction sits on the record, and it was announced on May 6, 2025. It cut roles by approximately 500 positions, about 5% of the global workforce, carried $44.8 million of related charges in fiscal 2026, and was reported complete as of July 31, 2026, with no further charges in the quarter (SEC EDGAR). Full-time headcount was 10,118 at January 31, 2025 (SEC EDGAR) and 10,698 a year later (SEC EDGAR).

Litigation is the first. Delta Air Lines sued on October 25, 2024 over the July 19 incident, and that case was in discovery as of the 10-Q filed August 27, 2026, while the shareholder derivative suits over the same incident were dismissed by court orders on March 18, April 7 and April 16, 2026 (SEC EDGAR). The same filing discloses U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission requests for information relating to recognition of revenue and reporting of ARR for transactions with certain customers, the July 19 incident and related matters. Commercially, the company says the customer commitment packages have resulted, and are expected to continue to result, in increased contraction and decreased upsell dollar values (SEC EDGAR). Axios reported on August 20, 2026 that the global chief technology officer was leaving after 13 years at the company (Axios).

CrowdStrike's Class A common stock has traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market as CRWD since its June 2019 initial public offering (SEC EDGAR), so a grant tracks a public share price rather than an internal mark. The record behind it is ending ARR of $5.84 billion at July 31, 2026, up 25% (SEC EDGAR), a dollar-based net retention rate of 115% as of January 31, 2026, up from 112% a year earlier (SEC EDGAR), and a share repurchase authorization the board raised to $1.5 billion on April 6, 2026, of which $175.6 million was used in the six months ended July 31, 2026 (SEC EDGAR). Its investor briefing deck dated September 2, 2026 shows targets of $10 billion in ending ARR within fiscal 2030 and $20 billion within fiscal 2035, each a year earlier than the fiscal 2031 and fiscal 2036 targets it showed before (CrowdStrike Investor Relations).

CrowdStrike's fiscal 2026 10-K describes a distributed workforce rather than a return-to-office rule (SEC EDGAR). It says the ability to work remotely or in a hybrid arrangement is a deliberate strategy, that it has had a distributed workforce since its inception, and that it designed its processes so that most employees can perform their jobs without needing to be physically present in the same room or even in the same time zone. That is a company-wide description, so the location terms written into the job posting you apply to are the ones that bind.