Struggling to improve - Anonymous employee AspenTech Employee Review

3.0
May 19, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people here are generally great though many of them appear to be the working dead, they make the best of it. The company is still in a transitional period with it's new CEO and corporate headquarters; things have improved even in the short time I've been here but it still has a way to go. HR does their best to arrange 'fun' events to improve employee moral and I get the sense that as a whole, the company does genuinely care about their employees and culture but employees and executives that have been with the company since the old guard may hinder the adoption of a employee-centric culture.

Cons

Entire business model dependent on the fossil-fuel market. Benefits are adequate though maybe not as competitive as they could be. Salaries may be exponentially lower than market average - which is the case for my position. Arbitrary deadlines exist for no purpose other than for middle-management to justify their own existence. Employees with inadequate or out-dated skill sets create more work for co-workers and waste company resources that could be spent on more qualified candidates. Company structure is top heavy. Too many Chiefs, not enough Indians.

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