AspenTech reviews

3.3

60% would recommend to a friend

(830 total reviews)
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Antonio Pietri

44% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

AspenTech has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 830 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AspenTech 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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830 reviews
2.0
Oct 9, 2010

Dictature

Recommend
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Pros

Point solutions are ok. Good customers and many interesting customer engagements.

Cons

Poor management. In fact, like a dictature. The mode is management by terror and fear. The meddle management at the VP level is often worse with a constant behavior of obedience and bossy attitude with employees, while being yes men with upper levels. Impossible to suggest any change, the CEO is always right. If you raise the hand, they barely listen and always do nothing, waiting for the decisions to come from above. Initiative spirit is discouraged, eliminated, destroyed. The company is dying in stupid complex processes that require job positions to be created only for control and over control purposes. To justify their jobs, they tend to conceive new crazy processes every day. The system is kafkaian, totally blocked and paralyzing. The token model is financial oriented and turns the sales force into sales administrative clerks. No value based selling approach, the culture is teckies, features and function. Sales never talk to C-level, they only deal with technicians. Internal communication does not exist or just like boring propaganda. Product offering is a mess and too many disconnected point solutions.

3.0
Sep 21, 2010

Pound Wise and People Foolish

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Stable, financially sound, focused. Smart people, good teamwork in the ranks. Proven value proposition of saving customers $Ms with their software. Marquis-name customers who are willing to speak on company's behalf. Great token-based subscription model.

Cons

It's about the numbers, not the people. For example, telecommuting is strictly forbidden. Last year HR issued a policy stating that in the event of a snowstorm employees who did not want to risk the commute must take a personal day or vacation day, unless a state of emergency had been called.. // Expectation that you will sacrifice your personal time on a regular basis, no comp time considered. Last year it was mandated that no vacation could be taken during Christmas and New Year's due to a major project being wrapped up, but also the planned vacation time that was cancelled could be carried over into the following year.

1.0
Sep 11, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits Competitive salary Excellent simulation soft

Cons

No respect for employees Management live in their own (US) confined and strategicaly privileged ignorant world not even knowing who make really contribute to the company's growht Very angry customer base Poor Future Planning and Career Grooming No more saoul

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