Appian reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(790 total reviews)
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Matt Calkins

54% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Appian has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 790 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Appian employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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790 reviews
1.0
Sep 7, 2014

Poor management and sales license model

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Pros

Nice offices. Generally nice people. A market leading bpm solution. Very efficient at responding to tenders and working together on them.

Cons

Very poor benefits. People are scared to speak up for what they believe in. A very poor license model and insanely high prices meaning they are getting priced out by competitors more often. Preach collaboration as part of their solution but internally this just does not happen. Expect micro-management. Still too small to be seen as a big player.

1.0
Mar 22, 2024

A mess of a company. Major changes needed.

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Pros

I really liked some of the people and made some good friends there.

Cons

Leadership is mostly concerned with protecting their own position at the company and don't actually seem to care about much else. The sales have slowed down and they immediately look for anyone to blame that isn't them. Every time there is a soft quarter, you watch a stream of people get sacrificed to protect bad managers. Most of the longer term employees learned from this system and are experts at dodging responsibility. The internal systems (built on Appian, of course) are a jumbled mess. All the silos build their own utilities, everything is inconsistent, and there are constant arguments about whose view is right when the truth is the systems and reporting are so bad that no one really knows. Things get lost all the time, customers get frustrated, and the managers blame their teams. There is no consistency in what they say the product does. The core platform has changed very little in 5 years, but they keep over promising and spinning to make it seem like it's making huge changes. It was "unifying enterprise data" then "low code data" then "data fabric". Three names for the same thing. They just polish the turd and try to resell it to customers every 6-12 months with heightened expectations. You're in a terrible situation following the sales and marketing people as you have to reset the customer expectations to reality. It is an awful grind working here. Leaving felt amazing.

1.0
Dec 22, 2010
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Pros

The coworkers are great though there has been about an 85% turnover in the last few years. Peers in engineering are great to learn from and share information with - good programming skills to take to another job. Management is desperate to keep employees now so you can negotiate salary.

Cons

Senior Management including founders are egotistical and have yet to be profitable. They run their employees ragged with ridiculous hours and then don't appreciate them at the end of the day. They now appreciate those who dedicate their lives to their work but there are better options out there for a couple extra bucks. Customers and employees are generally dissatisfied with the product and Appian in general but the Sales team is great and continues to sell.

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