Good work environment, bad career choice - Engineer AspenTech Employee Review

3.0
Jul 18, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

At the office where I work, work is pretty flexible in the sense that it you need to work from home some day or if you need to work flexible hours, it's fine most of the time. In my area, services, you get to travel quite often, which is nice if you like the opportunity of travelling, but sometimes can be a little too much.

Cons

The number of promotions inside the company looks minimal. They don't usually disclose how many people are promoted, but my perception is that very few people are. The only exception was 2012, when many people were promoted and they decided to send the promotions information to everyone in the company. All other years had no information on number of promotions and it looks like there were very few. You better join Aspentech at the top of your career and don't expect to go much further.

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Cons

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Pros

Good products with large customer base. Product development is innovative and willing to work directly with customers. Base pay for sales reps is improving after the acquisition by Emerson Electric. The Emerson Electric acquisition is received positively by the customers. Internal training is good and readily available. Collaboration between the various departments is excellent.

Cons

New management is focused on running the sales organization by spreadsheet metrics vs. obtaining and improving customer relationships. Product pricing and sales approval processes are very complex. Customers are seen as captives and when they request reasonable changes to their contract, they are often denied if there is not significant revenue growth (results in bad relationships). Sales management is spending more time in internal meetings than with customers and their reps.

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