Anaplan reviews

3.6

66% would recommend to a friend

(1,081 total reviews)
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Charlie Gottdiener

71% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Anaplan has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,081 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Anaplan employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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1K reviews
5.0
Feb 3, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Huge market - high on the agenda for most organisations, and especially the largest one. Just have a look at the list of blue chip customers and partners Technology breakthrough - unique on the market. Users love it and are vocal about (some even wrote songs about it and cartoons) Huge careers opportunities, as the company is doubling size every year, it creates a lot of opportunities and bridges between different jobs. Management not opposed to being creative Broad spectrum of applications spanning many line of business in an organisation (Finance, Sales, HR, Operations) and industries (Insurance, High Tech, CPG, Manufacturing..) Competition with top tier Mega vendors as well as Pure players - high win rate. Backed with 1st class VC's (who are also supporting disrupting companies such as Tesla, SpaceX, Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce, Workday ..) Very demanding environment where it is sometimes better to ask for forgiveness rather than permission! Equities are worth the difference in terms of salary/benefit

Cons

doubling size/tripling nb of users every year mean the company has to adapt to change of scale very rapidly, as well for the people. Balance with personal life - if you enjoy your job, it will be perfect - Anaplan invites spouse/family to some events when possible since they are indirectly involved in building the ANAPLAN culture and company

1.0
Jan 26, 2015

Tiny raises

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

SAP employees First time CEO, VPs and management Ceo made it clear we are not going to IPO in the next 3-5years (He wants to wait for the perfect opportunity, once our competitors surpass what we have)

Cons

- I was with Anaplan for more than 3years, during my tenure I have received zero bonus, little tiny raise and no promotion - Salary isn't on par in the bay area - Took a risk joining Anaplan and I didn't get anything out of it

1.0
Jan 9, 2015

Chaos and poorly managed

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free snacks, good location, product is decent I guess. Can't think of anything else honestly.

Cons

As many of the 1 or 2 star reviews suggest, Anaplan is a company built on deception of a 'great startup'. Anaplan is ruled as a dictatorship under the leader Emperor Fred Laluyaux, all departments and employees must kowtow to all his wishes and requests. All middle, C-level, and VP managers are weak, including the CTO who is intimidated and makes decisions at the behest of the Emperor. The Emperor always claims that Anaplan is a 'fast moving' and the 'culture is not for everyone' which is a great excuse for basically saying we have a really bad culture. The most fitting description of Anaplan can be summarized as 'chaos'. The company has a knack for inducing and stoking a chaotic work environment. Everything from lack of process, to backstabbing colleagues, and the BS that's constantly being promoted by HR and marketing. It's a very toxic work environment. Never experienced anything so toxic in my career. As previous reviews have mentioned, the emperor has been recruiting low-level SAP managers to serve his conquest as VPs and SVPs, so you'll often find that there are a lot of incompetent managers with lofty job titles and golden parachutes. If you like chaos and toxicity in a work environment. Anaplan is a great company for you! Also, this reviewer can confirm that HR did in-fact tell the company to write up faulty reviews of the company.

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