Top heavy company with out of touch CEO
Pros
Not a lot to talk about. But you will love your customers and the work if you’re interested in operational technology software.
Cons
The company is becoming more of a dictatorship with orders coming straight from the CEO who seems completely out of touch with how employees at the grassroots level feel. The direct managers have lost all their power. Every decision has to be taken to the top and then decisions are taken. They’ve implemented a very strict hybrid work policy, and they record badge taps and also you have to report your work location in their HR tool. Extreme micromanagement. Also, when people ask them about this openly in the town halls, the response is that we spend a lot of money on office rental space so you have to come. Another time when somebody asked the CEO and he feels that it is less sustainable to drive to the office everyday, the CEO said that “buy a Tesla”… which is so insensitive. When somebody asks him that he can work as productively from home as from the office, his reply is that it’s not about productivity at all. It’s all about “quality” of work. Which makes me think that you can be as unproductive as you want as long as you’re working from the office. It doesn’t matter at all to him that 10 people around you could be shouting on their microphones all in meetings around the world. You could have taken the meeting from anywhere but you drive 40 minutes first to the office to take that meeting with people shouting all around you in their own meetings. The bonus each year is a joke! You would never get as much as you’re promised. The salary is much below market rates. If you are an immigrant that needs sponsorship for green card, you’d have to pay all the costs out of your pocket. The office cupcakes or the parties or team building activities have all stopped. AspenTech has killed the OSI culture.
