Bentley Systems reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(235 total reviews)
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Nicholas Cumins

89% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

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4.0
Jan 19, 2021

Software Engineer

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Pros

Great People Relaxed atmosphere Opportunities to work with higher ups Stable company with a lot of people staying for many years

Cons

Salary isn't competitive for top performers Slow career advancement Benefits are fine but not fantastic.

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Thanks for leaving your feedback and best wished in your new role.
5.0
Jan 14, 2021
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Pros

Great company, great pay, great employer

Cons

The only con was that our contract ended too soon

2.0
Jan 13, 2021

Stay Away Toxic Management

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Pros

Bentley is a great company to start your career out of college and gain experience. Also, a great company for consultants who are on contracts to experience Sales, IT, development, Project Management, etc... It also has it pluses around traveling and working with some good people. If you want work life balance. SOME managers get it and allow working from home and take time off.

Cons

Bentley management is Xenophobic especially around the headquarters location. If you are liked, you will be kept on a high pedestal and guidance will be provided for success. I you are not liked you will be treated like an outsider. When visiting there, I experienced complete ignorance from teams and management. Middle management is not qualified/fit for purpose Especially Project Delivery and Civil management who seemed to never have time to help visitors (employees) get involved and trained. Sharing all users’ issues went nowhere with Product Management (4 years later the product is still the same with the same problems given by Users directly) Sales team always asked for more from Product Management especially around what is in the pipeline and the knowledge was kept in secrecy. Found out later that half the product management staff hardly had any technical knowledge of their products but had a marketing background, which is perplexing. And that explained why they knew how to talk and convince anyone they know what they are talking about. If we are one company the information should be shared and not kept in just the team. It would have helped other teams like Sales explain and promote the products. When the training was requested it was given, but in 10-15 min chunks and from 5 different product managers who sounded like they were reading scripts and unsure of what their product can do. My experience with Bentley Systems was unpleasant after seeing how bad the management team lied to the users and to each other. If you want to be in a company that is toxic, and you must look over your shoulder to see who’s looking or wanting to degrade you as a person with good knowledge and experience. This is the place for you. Pay Increases in this company is peanuts. Promotion, if you are liked you will go places your knowledge has nothing to do with your promotion.

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Bentley Systems Response
5y
Thank you for taking the time to share this feedback with us. We are very sorry about your experience at Bentley. We value all of our current and former colleagues’ feedback, and we would be open to hearing directly from you regarding your experience at the company HQ and specifically how we can do more to improve. Please feel free to reach out to local Bentley HR to discuss. We wish you all the best.
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